[percy-l] First News for the Walker Percy Centennial

Henry Mills wppdirector at gmail.com
Thu Apr 28 12:32:25 EDT 2016


Dear Percy-L:

We are now beginning the month leading up to the May 28 centennial of 
the birth of the good Dr. Percy, who has left us so many literary 
treasures to enjoy and inspire our lives. To begin our own celebration 
as a community, I'd like to forward here two items of interest for this 
time of reflection on Percy's legacy, both its broader value to so many, 
as well as in how it may personally be meaningful to each of us as his 
readers.

This post today follows a longer, more detailed one entitled "2016 
Walker Percy Centennial Opportunities:  A Listing of Activities, 
Discussion Programs, etc..." sent out to the Percy-L community this past 
February 21.  A distilled listing of those opportunities and links to 
them is now viewable on the homepage of The Walker Percy Project 
website: <http://www.ibiblio.org/wpercy>.

To begin with individual announcements as they arrive, and provide some 
Percy-related reading opportunities to start the month off, here are the 
two present items of timely interest:

1) *"Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer' at Fifty: New Takes on an Iconic 
American Novel" now available*
The essay collection "Walker Percy's 'The Moviegoer' at Fifty..." from 
LSU Press is now available and is certain to provoke some new 
perspectives on Percy's best known work based on many of the essay 
titles contained in the book. Read the full book description and table 
of contents at 
<http://lsupress.org/books/detail/walker-percys-the-moviegoer-at-fifty#sthash.ZMHTv1yv.dpuf>.

2) *"The Walker Percy Centennial: Pilgrimage in Literature": 2016 
Southeast Christianity & Literature Conference begins today*
Today marks the start of the 2016 Southeast Christianity & Literature 
Conference recognizing Percy's literary contributions at the lovely 
setting of Montreat College near Black Mountain, NC, scheduled to run 
tonight through Saturday afternoon.  The keynote speaker is Dr. Farrell 
O'Gorman, author of "Peculiar Crossroads: Flannery O'Connor, Walker 
Percy, and Catholic Vision in Postwar Southern Fiction" (LSU Press, 
2004).  David Madden - - novelist, Civil War historian, and a former 
creative writing professor at LSU - - will also share at the conference 
his remembrances of Percy when Percy taught in the LSU English 
Department as a visiting writer.

You can read about the many interesting paper topics and scheduled 
events at 
<http://www.montreat.edu/student-life/special-programs/walker-percy-centennial/>. 
Percy-L member Pr. Rich Gray of Montreat has organized an outstanding 
conference ahead, and with any good fortune, a follow-up conference 
report from one of its attendees will be available.

Enjoy! There is more to come for this special time and year of the 
celebration of Walker Percy and his legacy as we all reflect on his 
personal impact on our individual lives.  I hope one or more of us will 
have a chance to share our Percy reading experiences with the community 
in days ahead.

Best Percy wishes,
Henry Mills

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Director, The Walker Percy Project
Percy-L Administrator





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