From wppdirector at gmail.com Sat Apr 4 08:10:29 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Sat, 04 Apr 2015 08:10:29 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Suffering, Sexuality, and the Cross: John Paul II and Walker Percy on the Culture of Death Message-ID: <551FD4B5.6040408@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L: For those who might be interested in some close reading of /The Thanatos Syndrome/, its themes, and related Percyesque cultural reflections as present in the below Catholic publication (originally published on Good Friday this Easter weekend), hope you will enjoy. Best, Henry Mills ---- Suffering, Sexuality, and the Cross: John Paul II and Walker Percy on the Culture of Death http://www.patheos.com/blogs/loveamongtheruins/2015/04/suffering-sexuality-and-the-cross-john-paul-ii-and-walker-percy-on-the-culture-of-death/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Thu Apr 9 07:10:30 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 07:10:30 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] Sewanee's Rivendell Writers' Colony and the Percy family Message-ID: <55265E26.10809@gmail.com> For those interested in learning more about the Rivendell Writers' Colony, and both WAP's and WP's relationship to the area, you may enjoy the below article and excerpt from NashvilleScene. Anyone care to comment on how Lost Cove figured as a place in both Second Coming and Lost in the Cosmos? Obviously, the area made an impression on the young Percy. Rivendell's website is http://rivendellwriterscolony.org/. Best, Henry * * ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ***Sewanee's Rivendell Writers' Colony offers writers ? and readers ? a respite from the day-to-day world * http://www.nashvillescene.com/nashville/sewanees-rivendell-writers-colony-offers-writers-andmdash-and-readers-andmdash-a-respite-from-the-day-to-day-world/Content?oid=5007381 By Susannah Felts and /Chapter16.org / April 09, 2015 Arts and Culture ? Books ....Yet Rivendell's literary roots extend even deeper than that. Brinkwood, a farm adjoining the Rivendell property, was once owned by William Alexander Percy, cousin to novelist Walker Percy. As a young adult, Walker Percy spent many happy summers at Brinkwood with his cousin "Uncle Will," who was himself a poet and the author of a bestselling memoir, /Lanterns on the Levee/. William Percy adopted Walker and his brothers after their parents passed away. The surrounding landscape left a profound impact on Percy, showing up in his novels' characters and settings. Today visitors to Rivendell may come upon a small stone bench beside a path through the woods; it was one of Percy's favorite places to rest in quiet contemplation. Now the bench marks a midpoint on the path between a two-bedroom house on the Rivendell property overlooking Lost Cove ? a new cottage known as "Percy's Perch" ? and Rivendell Manor, centerpiece of the colony, which is built of the same sandstone as the nearby university campus at Sewanee. Both Percy's Perch and the renovated Rivendell Manor are the work of a Nashville philanthropist, Mary Elizabeth Nelson, who purchased the Rivendell and Brinkwood properties in the 1990s. At age 60, having just divorced her husband of many years, Nelson paid a visit to her godmother in Sewanee. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Sat Apr 11 08:02:29 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Sat, 11 Apr 2015 08:02:29 -0400 Subject: [percy-l] "Literary Louisiana" - New York Times feature article (April 10, 2015) Message-ID: <55290D55.4060904@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L: Percy-L followers may enjoy the below New York Times article providing a rich magazine-length narrative journey through literary New Orleans and surrounding areas, including Covington, Percy's hometown. Included are representative sections on Percy, Tennessee Williams, Toole, Faulkner, Chopin and other authors associated with the area. The article features several vibrant photographs, including one of Percy, that convey both the mystique and local color of the area, as well as mentions landmarks that may be of interest during a visit. For your interest, listed below are the annual literary festivals held in New Orleans. More details about the 2015 Walker Percy Conference at Loyola Univ, New Orleans, will be forthcoming through Percy-L in the near future. Hope you might enjoy this fine article. Best, Henry Mills Percy-L Manager ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Literary Louisiana * By JENNIFER MOSES APRIL 10, 2015 New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/12/travel/12Cover-Literary-Louisiana.html ------------------------------------------------------------------------ NEW ORLEANS LITERARY FESTIVALS --The 30th Anniversary Tennessee Williams/New Orleans Literary Festival is slated for March 30-April 3, 2016. For further information, http://www.tennesseewilliams.net/ --The Words and Music Festival of the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society is another annual opportunity to experience literary and music culture in New Orleans. 2015 dates have not been released. 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Or, as Robert Penn Warren put it in ?All the King?s Men?: ?We came into the great lobby, under the dome, where there was a blaze of light over the statues which stood in statesmanlike dignity on pedestals to mark the quarters of the place. ? I saw the two little spurts of pale-orange flame from the muzzle of the weapon.? That reminded me of those light reflections that appeared all over Love in the Ruins which I kept asking about and Jay Tolson answered about them this way: The light reflections?? Hard to determine authorial intent, but reflected light suggests soul to me.? That it is?reflected means that the soul is dependent on the source of that light.? Whether Percy intended it or not, was aware of it or not, the fact is that these reflected lights are everywhere, speaking to us at a subliminal level, suggests that Percy was showing that we are not autonomous creatures but dependent on the source of our being. 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APRIL 15, 2015 For more information contact James Fox-Smith | (225) 721-1460 | admin at walkerpercyweekend.org *THE LITERARY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE WRITER AND HIS WORKS JUNE 5?7, 2015 ST. FRANCISVILLE, LOUISIANA Lectures and Panel Discussions. The Twilight in the Ruins Cocktail Party. The Progressive Front Porch Bourbon Tour. Individual tickets for the signature events of the 2015 Walker Percy Weekend went on sale today. At the time of sending fewer than 50 remained. To get yours, visit **www.walkerpercyweekend.org**.* The second annual Walker Percy Weekend celebrates the acclaimed novelist?s life and work in unforgettable surroundings, June 5?7 in St. Francisville. Intellectually serious but high-spirited, the festival invites fans of Southern literature to pursue appreciation of Percy's thought and writing while attending presentations by renowned scholars, panel discussions, readings, tours to sites familiar to readings, and social and culinary events inspired by the author's most famous works. Events take place at locations around St. Francisville's historic district. *SCHEDULE HIGHLIGHTS* LECTURES AND PANEL DISCUSSIONS: Renowned writers, thinkers, and teachers gather to discuss the life and legacy of Walker Percy and related writers. Panel topics include *"Flannery O'Connor and Walker Percy: Catholics in the Christ-Haunted South," "Walker Percy and David Foster Wallace: Losing It at the Movies," "From /Gone With the Wind/ to /Garden & Gun: /Walker Percy at the Crossroads of the Old South and the New,"* and *"Mississippi Woman, Louisiana Man: Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, and the Southern Imagination."* For details visit www.walkerpercyweekend.org. A TWILIGHT IN THE RUINScocktail party staged in the spectacular Ruins Garden at Afton Villa Gardens?once the site of a Percy family home. Featuring specialty drinks and fine hors d?oeuvres crafted by Heirloom Cuisine. The return of the PROGRESSIVE FRONT-PORCH TOUR AND BOURBON TASTINGinspired by Percy?s famous essay, ?Bourbon, Neat.? The tour visits notable homes around the Historic District, with a different summer-weight bourbon-based refreshment served at each. An authentic LOUISIANA CRAWFISH BOILserved with a selection of regional craft beers, presented by Chefs Cody and Samantha Carroll of Hot Tails Restaurant in New Roads. With music by Ben Bell & the Stardust Boys. GUIDED TOURSto visit sites familiar to fans of Percy?s fiction: Entergy?s River Bend Nuclear Plant and Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola (THE THANATOS SYNDROME), and a self-guided driving tour visiting notable Percy family sites around the Felicianas. And a chance to WIN A WEEKEND GETAWAYto the magnificent Southern Hotel in Covington, LA, ranked among the South?s Best New Hotels for 2015 by /Southern Living/ magazine. Walker Percy (1916?1990) wrote novels that explored the ?dislocation of man in the modern age.? Most of his work was set in New Orleans and around South Louisiana, including the semi-fictitious Feliciana, which the author based upon West Feliciana and the other Florida parishes. Percy?s debut novel, THE MOVIEGOER, won the National Book Award for Fiction, and was included on Time magazine?s list of the 100 Best English language novels from 1923?2005. In later works, including LOVE IN THE RUINS,THE LAST GENTLEMAN, and THE THANATOS SYNDROME, Percy continued exploring the search for meaning in an increasingly materialistic society via masterfully wrought tales delivered with a poetic Southern sensibility and informed by the author?s deep Catholic faith. Festival proceeds support the JULIUS FREYHAN FOUNDATION?an organization dedicated to restoring the historic Freyhan School building to serve as a community and cultural center for West Feliciana Parish. FOR SCHEDULE, TICKETS AND ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION, VISIT WWW.WALKERPERCYWEEKEND.ORG /* high-resolution photos available upon request. / Painting information: George Rodrigue (1944-2013, Walker Percy, 1982, oil on canvas, 40"x30", collection of the artist www.countryroadsmagazine.com | contact us Twitter Google+ LinkedIn Facebook Country Roads Magazine ? 728 France Street, Baton Rouge, LA 70802 ? (225) 343-3714 No longer wish to receive this type of email? Unsubscribe -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: