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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?
The autism-vaccine lie that won't die. Welcome, Tell us what you think " ... as radically different in temperament as Walker Percy and Cormac McCarthy. ...
By Allen Barra
Tuesday, March 3, 2009
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The 1956 classic "A Walk on the Wild Side" captured the Crescent City as we'll never see it again -- seedy, brutal, alive.
New Orleans, not the tourist trap of Bourbon Street nailed by Walker Percy over 20 years ago as "Little more now than standard U.S. sleaze," is gone. ...
By Allen Barra
Thursday, September 7, 2006
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When FEMA cuts off their hotel subsidies Feb. 7, thousands of Katrina victims will be forced into the streets.
Finally, liberals and Palin agree on something: Fire Rahm. What exactly did Bush and ... class neighborhood that served as the setting for Walker Percy's "The Moviegoer. ...
By Michelle Goldberg
Tuesday, February 7, 2006
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John Kennedy Toole, Ernest Gaines and the recipes of Enola Prudhomme will instruct you in the sorrows and joys of the Bayou State.
What the Supreme Court got right. World's cutest cheese ad, exploding wine, chocolate ... was brought to the great writer Walker Percy's attention, who helped get it published. ...
By Rebecca Wells
Monday, October 2, 2006
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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.
In his 1975 essay "The Loss of the Creature," Walker Percy attributes traveler's angst to the idea that our various destinations have been "appropriated ...
By Rolf Potts
Wednesday, February 10, 1999
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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.
As Walker Percy wrote of his reluctance to consider the manuscript for "A Confederacy of Dunces," "My only fear was that this one might not be ...
By Patricia Chui
Monday, February 25, 2002
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William Faulkner and John Grisham battle it out for the soul of the South's most bookish city.
Obama to indefinitely imprison detainees without charges. This Week in Crazy: Clarence ... Williams, Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, Willie Morris and Richard ...
By Dwight Garner
Wednesday, March 12, 1997
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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.
So in a way you had to confront Walker Percy's "reentry problem" five separate times. That's it exactly. Nelse was the hardest because he was the youngest. ...
By Jonathan Miles
Wednesday, December 2, 1998
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The "Pirate Kingfish" savors his final free days before a jury lowers the boom.
Novelist Walker Percy, a native, best explained the effects of cross-cultural corruption in the port city of New Orleans: "Unfortunately and all ...
By Matt Labash
Friday, May 12, 2000
