[percy-l] Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6

Garic Barranger nikkibar at aol.com
Fri Aug 21 18:56:27 EDT 2009


Now that you are retired, is seems that our long overdue lunch should  
be up for grabs. Do you have anything that brings you this way? I have  
been working on a meandering history of my mom with an extended foray  
into my nightmare with Thelma which might interest you.

Nikki
On Aug 21, 2009, at 7:03 AM, marcus at loyno.edu wrote:

> I tried to go through my Loyola account.  The Hopkins
> journal is listed on MUSE (which Loyola subscribes to), but
> when I asked for Percy's story I got "there is no electronic
> full text for this item."   I suspect that Percy's
> agent/publisher contract imposed this restriction.  When
> Sarah and I visited Bunt last spring, she referred to some
> static at having given permission for the "Detective Story"
> to be published by Hopkins without going through
> agent/publisher.
>
> Marcus
>
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> Subject: Percy-L Digest, Vol 66, Issue 6
> Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2009 13:21:23 -0400
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>>   1. Re: re Percy's A Detective Story" (Garic Barranger)
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>> Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 18:47:57 -0500
>> From: Garic Barranger <nikkibar at aol.com>
>> Subject: Re: [percy-l] re Percy's A Detective Story"
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>> As I understand it the story was published in the Johns
>> Hopkins   Literary Magazine. Does anyone have access to
>> THEM? On Aug 18, 2009, at 2:34 AM, Jim Forest wrote:
>>
>>> Marcus, I did my best trying to find the text of "A
>>> Detective   Story", but so far all I have find are brick
>> walls and blind alleys. >
>>> If you (or anyone on the list) has the text of the WP
>>> story, would   you post it? Or if you have a URL that
>>> doesn't require a password,   post that.
>>>
>>> Jim
>>>
>>> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 3:24 PM, <marcus at loyno.edu>
>>> wrote: I?m wondering if anyone else on this list has
>>> read Percy?s recently published ?A Detective Story? and
>>> wondered if Percy is writing his own the male
>>> life-crisis fugue version of Dashiell Hammett?s
>>> ?Flitcraft Parable??
>>>
>>> You can link to the Percy story here:
>>>
>>>
>> (http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_hopkins_review/summary/v
>> 002/2.2.percy.html >
>>> If you Google Flitcraft you?ll find the text and lots of
>>> comments.  There?s a pretty good discussion here by Alan
>>> Gratz:
>>>
>>>
>>
> http://gratzindustries.blogspot.com/2008/05/flitcraft-parable.html
>>>
>>> Marcus Smith
>>>
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>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Jim & Nancy Forest
>>> Kanisstraat 5
>>> 1811 GJ Alkmaar
>>> The Netherlands
>>>
>>> Jim & Nancy site: www.incommunion.org/forest-flier/
>>> In Communion site: www.incommunion.org
>>> photos: www.flickr.com/photos/jimforest/sets/
>>>
>>> revised, expanded edition of "Living With Wisdom: a
>>> biography of   Thomas Merton":
>>>
>>
> http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/living-with-wisdom/
>>> revised, expanded, all-color edition of "Praying With
>>> Icons":
>>
> http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/praying-with-icons/
>>> "The Road to Emmaus: Pilgrimage as a Way of Life":
>>>
>>
> http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/the-road-to-emmaus-pilgrimage-as-a-way-of-life/
>>> "Silent as a Stone," a children's book about a community
>>> of rescuers   in Paris:
>>>
>>
> http://incommunion.org/forest-flier/books/silent-as-a-stone-mother-maria-of-paris-and-the-trash-can-rescue/
>>>
>>> blogs:
>>>
>>> On Pilgrimage:
>>> http://jimandnancyonpilgrimage.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> A Tale of Two Kidneys:
>>> http://ataleof2kidneys.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> * * *
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