Several list members are scheduled to present. It should be a fascinating time!
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Dear Percy-L:
For those who aren't aware
of it, below is an announcement for the October 11-12, 2013,
Walker Percy Conference to be held at The Walker Percy Center for
Writing and Publishing at Loyola University, New Orleans. This
information comes from http://www.loyno.edu/wpc/call-papers-2nd-biennial-walker-percy-conference.
A conference schedule,
descriptions of the panels, and participant biographies are
available at this link as well as details about the one-person
performance by Tom Key of his stage play, Lost in the Cosmos.
Best regards,
Henry Mills
Director, The Walker Percy Project
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Description of Conference:
Inspired by Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos,
the second biennial Walker Percy Conference seeks to explore the
themes and issues generated by Percy’s lively analysis of the
modern condition. In The Chronicle of Higher Education,
Tom Bartlett said of the book: "...an indescribable concoction of
hard facts and wild imagination, a parody of self-help books (sort
of), a philosophy textbook (kind of), and a collection of short
stories, quizzes, diagrams, thought experiments, mathematical
formulas, made-up dialogue, ridiculously long chapter titles, and
a few David Foster Wallace-worthy footnotes."
Walker Percy has many
special ties to Loyola, including his brief stint on the faculty
in the 1970s, when he “discovered” the manuscript of A
Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, and then helped
to excerpt it for Loyola’s well-respected literary magazine, New
Orleans Review.
Keynote Speaker:
Paul Elie
Among other things, he is the author of The Life You Save May
Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage, a biography of four
American Catholic writers: Thomas Merton, a Trappist monk; Dorothy
Day, the founder of the Catholic Worker; Flannery O'Connor, a
"Christ-haunted" Catholic; and Walker Percy, a medical doctor who
wrote fiction and philosophy. To learn more about Paul Elie, you
can go to:
http://www.loyno.edu/wpc/paul-elie-keynote-speaker
http://www.georgetown.edu/news/paul-elie-storycorps.html
http://berkleycenter.georgetown.edu/people/paul-elie
Stage play
performance of Lost in the Cosmos
A
one-person performance by Tom Key of Lost in the Cosmos
will take place on Saturday, October 12 at 6 pm in Nunemaker
Auditorium, Monroe Hall, Loyola Campus. For Theatrical Outfit,
Key has adapted two Walker Percy books, The National Book Award
Winning Novel, The Moviegoer (2001, “A comic gem,” The
Atlanta Journal and Constitution); and Lost in
the Cosmos: The Last Selp-Help Seminar (1996, “An
hilarious tour de force,” The Atlanta Journal and Constitution).
Tom Key is best known for his performance of Cotton Patch
Gospel, a one-person play inspired by Dr. Clarence
Jordan’s paraphrase of the New Testament who set the story of
Jesus in the American South. Information about purchasing
tickets to the performance will be available soon.
Please
direct any questions to:
Dr. Mary McCay, Director: email wpc AT loyno.edu
Rhoda Faust, Administrative Assistant: (504) 864-7041, email wpc AT loyno.edu
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