Greetings

Alphonse Vinh - Reference Library - x2350 (AVINH@NPR.ORG)
Wed, 12 Feb 1997 12:06:14 -0500

Greetings to my new colleagues on Percy-L! I am an ardent Percyite (interested
not only in Walker but also in Mr Will) and look forward to sharing Percy
thoughts and ideas with you all. I'm a writer and independent scholar who earns
his daily kopek as a research librarian and reviewer for National Public Radio.
I also generate story ideas for the company too--and welcome new books for
review from the Percy-L members and interview possibilities!

My interests are equally distributed between religion, literature, intellectual
history, and philosophy. My publications have dealt with French Catholic
writers, Southern literature and culture, and the Russian Orthodox Church. Of
possible interest to Percyites is my forthcoming THE WELL-WROUGHT CRITICS,
which is the correspondence of Allen Tate and Cleanth Brooks, for the
University of Missouri Press. Cleanth was a friend of Walker's and they were
mutual admirers of each others' work. Tate shares with Percy his membership in
the illustrious circle of Southern Catholic writers.

Well, that's my introduction in a nutshell.

Deo Vindice,

Alphonse Vinh