The Walker
Percy Project
1995-1997 Publicity Campaign
The following is a compilation of the publications and events where
publicity exposure for the Walker Percy Project has occurred during the period 1995-1997. Key areas
and channels where publicity has been sent include the following: professional
literary journals and conferences, newspapers and magazines, all the major
Internet catalogues, and pamphlet mailouts to the Walker
Percy Society and other known interested individuals and parties.
Places where publicity is known to have appeared:
1997 Walker Percy Symposium, Covington, La. (March)
The Southern Register (University of Mississippi), Winter 1996-1997
[23]
New Orleans Magazine, January, 1997 [38]
Literature and Belief Journal (Brigham Young University), Winter, 1997
The Texas Monthly, August, 1996 [121]
New Orleans Times-Picayune, July 14, 1996 [E7]
The Maple Street Wag (New Orleans, La.), October, 1996 [14-15]
The Book Lover's Guide to the Internet, 1996
1996 SXSW Multimedia Festival, Austin, TX (March)
1996 Walker Percy Symposium, Covington, La. (March)
Dallas Morning News, March 7, 1996
Austin-American Statesman, February 11, 1996 [F1]
The Southern Quarterly (University of Southern Mississippi), Winter,
1996 [129]
The Delta Factor, Newsletter of The Walker Percy Society, Fall, 1995
[9]
Publications of the Modern Language Association, October, 1995
Christianity and Literature Journal, Autumn, 1995
1995 Modern Language Association Conference, Walker Percy Session (December)
1995 Walker Percy Conference at University of Chicago (October)
The Southern Quarterly (University of Southern Mississippi), Summer,
1995 [159]
The Society for the Study of Southern Literature Newsletter, Spring, 1995
Post-Modern Culture (University of Virginia), May, 1995
1995 Walker Percy Symposium, Covington, La. (March)
Additional places beyond the above where PR has been sent:
Louisiana Literature Journal (Southeastern Louisiana University)
The Southern Review (Louisiana State University)
New Orleans Review (Loyola University, New Orleans)
DoubleTake (Duke University)
The Wilson Quarterly (Washington, DC)
The Oxford American (Oxford, MS)
The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
The Southern Literary Journal (University of North Carolina)
America Magazine (New York City)
Center for the Study of Southern Culture (University of Mississippi)
Eudora Welty Writers Center (Jackson, MS)
Harry Ransom Humanities Center (University of Texas)
University Press of Mississippi
Louisiana State University Press
University of North Carolina Press
English Department, University of North Carolina
English Department, Louisiana State University
LSU News Service (Baton Rouge, LA)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill General Libraries
Louisiana State University General Libraries
Mississippi Humanities Council
Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities
National Endowment for the Humanities
Columbia/Tri-Star Pictures
MacIntosh and Otis (Percy's literary agents)
Farrar, Straus, and Giroux (publisher of Percy's novels)
Faust Publishing (publisher of Percy's monographs)
Pamphlet mailouts
To date, special announcements have been sent to the Walker Percy
Society, the Walker Percy Symposium mailing list, and all guestbook signees of
the Walker Percy Project. The over 120 worldwide members of
Percy-L, the project's electronic discussion group, all receive regular news
and announcements about opportunities in the project.
Internet catalogues and announcements
The Walker Percy Project is indexed in all the major Internet catalogues
dedicated to literature, including Literary Resources on the Net, American
Studies Web, Voice of the Shuttle, The English Server, and the LSU
Webliography.
It is also indexed in all the major general interest Internet catalogues,
including Alta Vista, EINet, excite, HotBot, Infoseek, Lycos, Webcrawler, and
Yahoo, among others.
Special links to the Walker Percy Project further appear on the homepage of the
following organizations: The Southern Quarterly, University Press of
Mississippi, The Mississippi Review, and The Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Numerous mailings have also been forwarded through over a dozen literature-
and philosophy-oriented electronic mailing lists and bulletin boards,
including, but not limited to, AMLIT-L, ChristLit, T-AMLIT, PHIL-LIT, and
Peirce-L.
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