Review of Walker Percy’s Symbol and Existence
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Good Things Out of Nazareth: The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O’Connor and Friends
Here’s an interview with Ben Alexander about his recently published edited book. Ben also contributed to my Zygon symposium from a few years back. benjamin alexanderFlannery O’ConnorWalker Percy
A Catholic Novel for a Post-Truth World
Review of Randy Boyagoda’s latest novel Original Prin in The American Interest. CatholicismFlannery O’Connorgraham greeneJohn Kennedy TooleOriginal PrinPaul Eliephilosophical literatureRandy BoyagodaWalker Percy
Peter Viereck
Born on this date. If you appreciate Percy’s Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays, then you’ll definitely appreciate Viereck. Both were incredibly subtle, independent-minded and scathing and both happen to have been born in 1916. Here’s a piece entitled “Peter Viereck: European-American Conscience–1916-2006” sent to me by the late Irving Louis Horowitz. Irving Louis HorowitzPeter ViereckPoetryWalker…
A Confederacy of Dunces: Stephen Fry on his decades-long struggle to adapt the most unfilmable book ever written
From The Telegraph, by Alexander Larman. As per the cover art, the edited book Theology and Geometry is in press. +++++++++ In 1969, the 31-year old, would-be author John Kennedy Toole killed himself. Frustrated and miserable that his magnum opus, a picaresque New Orleans-set comic novel entitled A Confederacy of Dunces, had failed to find a publisher,…
Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know
and for anyone claiming to be of a cultivated mind. Catholicismjoseph pearcephilosophical literatureWalker Percy
Symbol and Existence. A Study in Meaning: Explorations of Human Nature
This is big news for Percy scholars. In preparation over the past few years, edited by three contributors to Walker Percy, Philosopher, this book will be published in October by Mercer University Press. Kenneth Laine Ketner, the lead editor, tells me that the group thinks this work really does show off Percy’s systematic thought, and that it…
