Percy-L: Literary, Religious, Scientific, and Philosophical Discussion of Walker Percy

[Percy-L Listserv Manager <percy.listserv.manager AT gmail.com>]

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 ACCLAIMED
NOVELIST'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

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