From wppdirector at gmail.com Wed Dec 9 08:44:16 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 08:44:16 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] The 4 p.m. Blues: Walker Percy's Remedy for Devaluation Message-ID: <56683030.1060602@gmail.com> Dear Percy-L: The following link leads to a fine short essay by Edward Dupuy published this past week in /Commonweal/ to which I would like to call to your attention: https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/last-word-4-pm-blues Dupuy is a scholar (and gentleman) who served as dean of St. Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in Covington, La., where Percy is buried, and also organized the previous Walker Percy Symposium along with St. Tammany Parish Library for many years. He is the author of /Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption/ (LSU Press, 1996) (https://books.google.com/books/about/Autobiography_in_Walker_Percy.html?id=Jt9oQgAACAAJ) Today, Dupuy serves as founding dean at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio (https://www.swschool.org/). He studied for his PhD at LSU under John R. May, former Walker Percy Project board member. Dupuy is to be recognized and thanked for his many contributions to academic and public understanding of Percy and his works. In this case his short essay features a photograph of Percy formidably sitting at his desk in his study. Best wishes, Henry Mills Percy-Administrator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From janetcantor37 at yahoo.com Wed Dec 9 09:35:11 2015 From: janetcantor37 at yahoo.com (janetcantor37 at yahoo.com) Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2015 14:35:11 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] The 4 p.m. Blues: Walker Percy's Remedy for Devaluation In-Reply-To: <56683030.1060602@gmail.com> References: <56683030.1060602@gmail.com> Message-ID: <420441700.4247422.1449671711865.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Thank you so much for this. How rewardingly beautiful!Janet Cantor Dear Percy-L: The following link leads to a fine short essay by Edward Dupuy published this past week in Commonweal to which I would like to call to your attention: ??? https://www.commonwealmagazine.org/last-word-4-pm-blues Dupuy is a scholar (and gentleman) who served as dean of St. Joseph Abbey and Seminary College in Covington, La., where Percy is buried, and also organized the previous Walker Percy Symposium along with St. Tammany Parish Library for many years. He is the author of Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption (LSU Press, 1996)(https://books.google.com/books/about/Autobiography_in_Walker_Percy.html?id=Jt9oQgAACAAJ) Today, Dupuy serves as founding dean at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio (https://www.swschool.org/).? He studied for his PhD at LSU under John R. May, former Walker Percy Project board member. ? Dupuy is to be recognized and thanked for his many contributions to academic and public understanding of Percy and his works. In this case his short essay features a photograph of Percy formidably sitting at his desk in his study. Best wishes, Henry Mills Percy-Administrator -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From steve.petrica at gmail.com Thu Dec 10 11:07:52 2015 From: steve.petrica at gmail.com (Steve Petrica) Date: Thu, 10 Dec 2015 10:07:52 -0600 Subject: [percy-l] "Breathing Again, Thanks to Walker Percy" Message-ID: > > Percy, a trained psychiatrist turned author, foresaw [the dis-integration > of America's social fabric] as disastrous for both the mental and spiritual > well being of persons, the true ?catastrophe? that he writes about in *Love > in the Ruins* (and in the sequel, *The Thanatos Syndrome*). ... So why do > I say Percy helps you to breathe again? Because he gets us out of the > intellectual smog that tries to deny that things are really bad in America. > This also helps you to again see the world as it really is. Smog blinds, as > well as stifles the breath of life. Percy helps us to see the truth, as > does every great novelist, and he does so from a truly Catholic vision of > reality. http://www.thecatholicthing.org/2015/12/09/breathing-thanks-walker-percy/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From wppdirector at gmail.com Sat Dec 19 08:38:46 2015 From: wppdirector at gmail.com (Henry Mills) Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2015 08:38:46 -0500 Subject: [percy-l] Walker Percy: Daylight and Dark In-Reply-To: <7761A8AF5860354BACE75B892020E1EE8D86B52E@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> References: <7761A8AF5860354BACE75B892020E1EE8D86B52E@exch-mbx02p.ead.ubc.ca> Message-ID: <56755DE6.7060404@gmail.com> Thank you, Leslie, for calling to our attention to this wonderful photograph book project of Percy. I encourage interested members of Percy-L to visit the below link to this Kickstarter campaign to read about and support completion of the publication of Christopher Harris' /Walker Percy: Daylight and Dark./ The six-minute video on the Kickstarter page describes the book and features many of the images of Percy that will be present in the photograph collection once it is published. Depending on which level you join, you will receive a copy of the book and acknowledgement within it. Below is further descriptive information from the project homepage. http://manwithoutqualities.com/2015/12/16/walker-percy-daylight-and-dark/ Best wishes and enjoy, Henry Mills Percy-L Administrator ? /Walker Percy: Daylight and Dark/ by Christopher R. Harris As a freelance photojournalist, Chris Harris has completed thousands of assignments and placements for clients including TIME, Newsweek, New York Times, Rolling Stone, Life, Esquire, People, Mother Jones, GQ, Paris Match, Sunday Times of London, Time-Life Books, Doubleday, Random House, McGraw-Hill, Gruner + Jahr, Prentice-Hall, Farrar, Straus & Giroux, and others. Today, Harris is set to release his most revealing and profound work, a thought-provoking and intimate collection of photographs taken over a 12-year period of writer and philosopher Walker Percy, an award-winning author whose life and career have garnered amused, thoughtful readership and respect the world over. With support from Percy family members and a team that includes Percy biographer Jay Tolson, Percy scholar Linda W. Hobson, and Art Director Richmond Powers, Walker Percy: Daylight and Dark, Portraits by Christopher R. Harris, will be published in 2016 to honor the 100-year anniversary of Percy?s birth. On 12/16/15 4:47 PM, Marsh, Leslie wrote: > Dear Henry, > > Would you please be kind enough to post this link to the Percy list: > > http://manwithoutqualities.com/2015/12/16/walker-percy-daylight-and-dark/ > > Many thanks, > > Leslie Marsh > Office of the Dean > Faculty of Medicine > T-314 > The University of British Columbia Hospital > 2211 Wesbrook Mall > Vancouver, BC V6T 2B5 > Canada > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From fotogharris at gmail.com Tue Dec 29 15:39:36 2015 From: fotogharris at gmail.com (Chris Harris) Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 20:39:36 +0000 (UTC) Subject: [percy-l] New Photo Book in Production on Walker Percy References: <408665457.4481598.1451421576673.JavaMail.yahoo.ref@mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <408665457.4481598.1451421576673.JavaMail.yahoo@mail.yahoo.com> Greetings All,? As an introduction, I was a photojournalist on an assignment when I first met Walker Percy. I then was allowed by him to document what it was to be a writer for the next dozen years-or-so--until his death.?? From this exclusive documentation I have now compiled a book of photographs and wish to invite anyone who would like to be a part of its publication.? I have started a?Kickstarter site for Walker Percy: Daylight and Dark...please take the time to view the movie and read the glowing reviews from other Percyphiles for what we propose. In case you want to share the link to this site with others it is:https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/christopherrharris/walker-percy-daylight-and-dark ? Thanks for any support you can offer...I hope to meet many of you at future Percy functions!? Best regards,Chris Harris ********************************** ?Politicians and diapers must be changed often, and for the same reason." Mark Twain ********************************** http://www.ChristopherRHarris.com http://www.SouthernFinePrints.com Prof. Christopher R. 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