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Flannery O'Connor wrote two novels and died young, but her influence has been vast. Why has it taken half a century for her to get a definitive biography?
Joe Klein: Both factually false and stuck in the 1980s. Palin slashed funding for ... as radically different in temperament as Walker Percy and Cormac McCarthy. ...
By Allen Barra
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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Five favorite novels from a decade that was wilder than you think.
Film Salon: Your favorite Coen brothers movie ... The Moviegoer by Walker Percy. A novel whose action is oblique, slantwise, Southern existential. ...
By E.L. Doctorow
Monday, July 26, 1999
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The author of "Sophie's Choice" picks five great contemporary Southern novels.
The Washington establishment suffers a serious defeat. Werner Herzog among the demented iguanas ... The Moviegoer by Walker Percy ...
By William Styron
Monday, October 25, 1999
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When FEMA cuts off their hotel subsidies Feb. 7, thousands of Katrina victims will be forced into the streets.
I'm not ready to be a stepmom. Ask the pilot. Welcome, Tell us what you ... class neighborhood that served as the setting for Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer. ...
By Michelle Goldberg
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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From the poems of Mrs. Jesus Christ to Santa's naughty diary, the unsolicited manuscripts that deluged our office made my publishing job a trial by ordeal.
Palin holds coming-out party in Hong Kong. This Modern World. Let the blurring begin ... As Walker Percy wrote of his reluctance to consider the manuscript for "A ...
By Patricia Chui
Monday, February 25, 2002
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A backpacker's quest to storm Leonardo DiCaprio's movie set ends in an epiphany that won't play in Peoria.
I'm not ready to be a stepmom. Ask the pilot. Welcome, Tell us what you ... "The Loss of the Creature," Walker Percy attributes traveler's angst to the idea ...
By Rolf Potts
Wednesday, February 10, 1999
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Life in New York is notorious for sin and excess. But instead of going wild, I went Catholic
In college, after reading Walker Percy and Dorothy Day, I got the idea that the ... Manley Hopkins, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Graham Greene, and Flannery O'Connor. ...
By Carlene Bauer
Monday, August 3, 2009
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The poet laureate of appetite talks about the saving power of animals, Charles Frazier's prose style and the tyranny of sexual correctness.
Rule-of-law extremism engulfs primitive Eastern Europe. Glenn Beck's ... So in a way you had to confront Walker Percy's "reentry problem" five separate times. ...
By Jonathan Miles
Wednesday, December 2, 1998
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William Faulkner and John Grisham battle it out for the soul of the South's most bookish city.
Impressions of the Lenovo ThinkPad T400s. Who's "the Decider" in your life? ... Tennessee Williams, Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, Willie Morris and Richard Ford, ...
By Dwight Garner
Wednesday, March 12, 1997
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The "Pirate Kingfish" savors his final free days before a jury lowers the boom.
Film Salon: Your favorite Coen brothers movie ... Novelist Walker Percy, a native, best explained the effects of cross-cultural ...
By Matt Labash
Friday, May 12, 2000
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A breathtaking issue of the New Orleans Review should win awards for capturing the city as no place else has: Entirely through the eyes of its native writers.
Clinton die-hards want floor vote at convention ... The excerpt of Walker Percy's 1968 essay "New Orleans Mon Amour," which opens ...
By Tony D'Souza
Monday, October 2, 2006
