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Walker Percy

Type: Person

Name: Walker Percy

First reported May 18 2013 - Updated May 18 2013 - 1 reports

Success or significance?

We have more than enough success stories to go around. What our world desperately needs is for you to live a significant life.Novelist Walker Percy often said that the trouble with most people is that they are not up to anything significant.In his book ... [Published Associated Baptist Press - May 18 2013]

Entities: Bob Buford, Walker Percy, Illustrator

First reported May 13 2013 - Updated May 13 2013 - 1 reports

Cause for Mirth: The Return of Abbey Brewing to the United States

Beer is another one of those testimonies to how the Catholic Church built European civilization.It is true that brewing was widely practiced in the ancient world, but the process was very primitive, even as simple as soaking a loaf of bread in water. ... [Published Catholic Education Resource Center - May 13 2013]

Entities: Catholic, Walker Percy, United States

First reported May 11 2013 - Updated May 11 2013 - 1 reports

Carl's Cuts for May 11, 2013

Comments on twenty or so recent news stories, essays, and reviews.For every lengthy and (hopefully) in-depth blog post I write from time to time, there are countless posts I never get around to writing. In fact, I estimate that for every post I do end ... [Published Catholic World Report - May 11 2013]

Entities: Frank Sheed, Walker Percy, Eugene Robinson

First reported May 10 2013 - Updated May 10 2013 - 1 reports

Signs and Wonders: Wall Street heavyweights insist Bernanke stop giving away ‘free money’

Banker objections. Those of us opposed to Ben Bernankeâs quantitative easing scheme could take solace from a new report issued this week. Bloomberg is reporting that members of the Treasury Borrowing Advisory Committee (TBAC)âmade up of high-level executives ... [Published World Magazine - May 10 2013]

Entities: Cleanth Brooks, Walker Percy, Wall Street

First reported May 09 2013 - Updated May 09 2013 - 1 reports

Traveling Mercies

I have been on pilgrimage this spring and traveled with boon companions. I’ve kept late nights with Dorothy Day, toted Thomas Merton on the train, chuckled with Flannery O’Connor over her tales of kindred freaks, and got lost with Walker Percy in the ... [Published America Magazine - May 09 2013]

Entities: Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, Dorothy Day, Paul Elie

First reported May 01 2013 - Updated May 01 2013 - 1 reports

Spirituality in Print and Film

Each year I act as moderator for two programs that take place under the auspices of the Office of Faith Formation of the Diocese of Brooklyn: an adult education course on the Catholic novel and a Friday film festival. Each program takes place twice each ... [Published Diocese of Brooklyn Tablet - May 01 2013]

Entities: Frank Capra, Walker Percy, Catholic, Ralph McInerney, Morris West

First reported Apr 29 2013 - Updated Apr 29 2013 - 1 reports

Now featured on the website

Just posted to our home page, an interview with novelist Richard Ford, who talks about writing, reading, the place of faith and religion in fiction, and the meditative qualities of authors like Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor. Read the whole thing ... [Published dotCommonweal - Apr 29 2013]

Entities: Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, Richard Ford, E. J. Dionne

First reported Apr 28 2013 - Updated Apr 28 2013 - 2 reports

To the Wonder‘s Reading List

Bilge Ebiri offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Terrence Malick made To the Wonder , including these details about how the director used art and literature to inspire cast and crew:As prompts for the actors, Malick shared representative ... [Published Atlantic Monthly - Apr 28 2013]

Entities: Terrence Malick, Jean-Luc Godard, Bilge Ebiri, Walker Percy, Martin Heidegger

First reported Apr 15 2013 - Updated Apr 15 2013 - 1 reports

The Moral Imagination

Entities: Frank Capra, Walker Percy, Catholic, Alice McDermott, Morris West

First reported Apr 01 2013 - Updated Apr 01 2013 - 1 reports

The Weekend Wrap

This Easter weekend on the Dish, Andrew praised the radical Christianity of Pope Francis, told us about his inspiring trip to West Point to speak to the military academy’s gay-straight alliance, and announced he was taking a breather. We ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 01 2013]

Entities: David Biespiel, Harold Augenbraum, Barry Hannah

First reported Mar 31 2013 - Updated Mar 31 2013 - 1 reports

A Different Conclusion To The Same Book

Danny Nowell recalls the first time he read Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer , describing its last thirty pages as “one of those really out of body reading experiences”: At the time, I felt as if Walker Percy were reading my diary to me. I was eighteen ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 31 2013]

Entities: Walker Percy, Sex, Indictment

First reported Mar 10 2013 - Updated Mar 10 2013 - 1 reports

High-Brow Escapism

Thirty years after Walker Percy’s Lost in the Cosmos was published, Alan Jacobs ponders what Percy was trying to get us to see: People—people in their role as viewers—are receptive to cults of personality because such cults distract us from the ... [Published The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 10 2013]

Entities: Walker Percy, Phil Donahue, Carl Sagan

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Success or significance? [Published Associated Baptist Press - May 18 2013]
Cause for Mirth: The Return of Abbey Brewing to... [Published Catholic Education Resource Center - May 13 2013]
Seitz: How to Direct a TV Drama [Published New York Magazine - May 13 2013]
Carl's Cuts for May 11, 2013 [Published Catholic World Report - May 11 2013]
Signs and Wonders: Wall Street heavyweights ins... [Published World Magazine - May 10 2013]
Traveling Mercies [Published America Magazine - May 09 2013]
Spirituality in Print and Film [Published Diocese of Brooklyn Tablet - May 01 2013]
Now featured on the website [Published dotCommonweal - Apr 29 2013]
To the Wonder‘s Reading List [Published Atlantic Monthly - Apr 28 2013]
To the Wonder‘s Reading List [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 28 2013]
The Moral Imagination [Published Long Island Catholic - Apr 15 2013]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 06 2013]
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 01 2013]
A Different Conclusion To The Same Book [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 31 2013]
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 16 2013]
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 11 2013]
High-Brow Escapism [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 10 2013]
The New Essayists or the Decline of a Form? [Published 3quarksdaily - Feb 24 2013]
Citizens United Revised … Upward? [Published The Moderate Voice - Feb 21 2013]
The Literary Side of This Year’s Super Bowl [Published The Weekly Standard Blog - Feb 03 2013]
Faith and fiction [Published dotCommonweal - Jan 12 2013]
Has The Novel Lost Its Faith? [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Dec 24 2012]
Has Fiction Lost Its Faith? [Published 3quarksdaily - Dec 22 2012]
Eight Days to the End of the World [Published OpEdNews - Dec 14 2012]
Shields column: Good advice goes unheeded [Published Marshfield News Herald - Nov 28 2012]
Francis Pavy to Exhibit Retrospective in 1911 C... [Published Orange Leader - Aug 19 2012]

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Now featured on the website [Published dotCommonweal - Apr 29 2013] Just posted to our home page, an interview with novelist Richard Ford, who talks about writing, reading, the place of faith and religion in fiction, and the meditative qualities of authors like Walker Percy and Flannery O’Connor. Read the whole thing ...
To the Wonder‘s Reading List [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 28 2013] Bilge Ebiri offers a fascinating behind-the-scenes look at how Terrence Malick made To the Wonder, including these details about how the director used art and literature to inspire cast and crew: As prompts for the actors, Malick shared representative ...
The Weekly Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 06 2013] Friday on the Dish, Andrew answered readers’ questions on his guilt over the consequences of the Iraq War, before letting them ask both Rod Dreher and Josh Fox anything. Elsewhere, we rounded up analysis of the poor jobs report, continued ...
The Weekend Wrap [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Apr 01 2013] This Easter weekend on the Dish, Andrew praised the radical Christianity of Pope Francis, told us about his inspiring trip to West Point to speak to the military academy’s gay-straight alliance, and announced he was taking a breather. We ...
A Different Conclusion To The Same Book [Published The Daily Dish \| By Andrew Sullivan - Mar 31 2013] Danny Nowell recalls the first time he read Walker Percy’s The Moviegoer , describing its last thirty pages as “one of those really out of body reading experiences”: At the time, I felt as if Walker Percy were reading my diary to me. I was eighteen ...