[percy-l] The Walker Percy Weekend Recommences (St. Francisville, La., June 3-5) - Festival Description & Panelists
Percy-L Listserv Manager
percy.listserv.manager at gmail.com
Sat Mar 19 16:39:43 EDT 2022
Thank you, Leslie, for calling to the attention of the Percy-L community
the recommencement of The Walker Percy Weekend for its 7th Annual Festival
this year.
For those interested, see below for a quick run-down about the festival and
this year’s panelists, as well as the link to purchase tickets, or visit
walkerpercyweekend.org . It's always a delightful and compelling series of
events to meet other Percy enthusiasts and readers of all sorts.
Best wishes,
Henry Mills
Percy-L Administrator
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THE WALKER PERCY WEEKEND
*A LITERARY FESTIVAL CELEBRATING THE ACCLAIMEDNOVELIST'S LIFE AND WORK.**JUNE
3-5, 2022*
*Good food, craft beer and bourbon, live music, and a great time talking
about books and Southern culture under the live oaks: That's what the
seventh annual Walker Percy Weekend has to offer when it returns to
celebrate the acclaimed novelist's life and work, June 3-5, 2022 in St.
Francisville, LA.*
2022 PANELISTS:
•*DR CHRIS BAGLOW* directs the Science & Religion Initiative at McGrath
Institute for Church Life at Notre Dame. A native of New Orleans, he
regularly works Walker Percy‘s thoughts and ideas and literature into his
teaching of the connection between faith and reason.
• *JODEE BLANCO* is a best selling author of several books including *I
John Kennedy Toole*, a *New York Times New and Noteworthy Selection. *
Based on the extraordinary true story behind *A Confederacy of Dunces*,
Toole’s Pulitzer Prize winning masterpiece, Blanco steps into Toole’s
voice, presenting a persuasive and compelling new interpretation of the
events that led to the making of the book that almost never was.
•*JOHN SHELTON REED* is an American sociologist, essayist, and author or
editor of twenty-two books, most dealing with the contemporary American
South. He taught at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill from
1969 until his retirement, helped to found the Center for the Study of the
American South, and was a founding co-editor of the quarterly *Southern
Cultures. *Among his many books is *Barbecue,* which traces the history of
Southern barbecue from its roots in the 16th century Caribbean.
• *READ MERCER SCHUCHARDT* (PhD, New York University) is associate
professor of communication at Wheaton College. He earned his doctorate
under the invitation of the late Neil Postman at NYU’s Media Ecology
program. He is also a member of the Media Ecology Association and the
International Jacques Ellul Society. Read will deliver an audiovisual
presentation touching on each of the films mentioned in Percy's 1961 novel
and National Book Award-winner *The Moviegoer.*
*FESTIVAL WEBSITE*
http://www.walkerpercyweekend.org
*TICKETS*
https://bontempstix.com/events/the-seventh-annual-walker-percy-weekend-6-3-2022
On Mar 19, 2022, at 9:33 AM, Burma Jones <lesliemarsh at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi Henry,
The Walker Percy Weekend is set to resume this June:
http://www.walkerpercyweekend.org
Best,
Leslie.
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Henry P. Mills III
Percy-L Manager
Percy.Listserv.Manager at gmail.com (for listserv management)
THE WALKER PERCY PROJECT
www.ibiblio.org/wpercy (website)
wppdirector at gmail.com (personal and Project email)
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