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Although Plausible Prejudices is sometimes a book of mourning for today's readers--Epstein inexplicably ignores such Southern writers as Eudora Welty. Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy, whose works he ought to enjoy--readers who share his prejudices will laugh and cheer as he lays waste the bad guys. Even for those who don't. Epstein's prose reaches the level of artistry, and should be appreciated as such--as a thing well-made...
...writers whose distinctive voices fill the pages of Ruas' book with shoptalk and gossip have learned to work against this unpromising backdrop. From Eudora Welty, 75, to Scott Spencer, the 39-year-old author of Endless Love, these eloquent veterans also know how to plug along through praise, criticism and indifference. Some careers grow slowly, like redwoods. Each Welty story added a ring to her reputation until today she is treated with the reverence accorded endangered species. Joseph Heller works hard just to keep the standing won nearly 25 years ago with Catch-22. William Burroughs, whose satiric fantasies...
Instead, it took the efforts of one of America's great writers--Eudora Welty--to catapsult a Harvard University Press publication onto the New York Times bestseller list for the first time in the scholarly press's history. One Writer's Beginnings, Welty's autobiographical account of her childhood, has dotted the list for 13 weeks this spring; the book was based on material from the author's presentations at the first William E. Massey lecture series at Harvard
Recognizing her skills as well as her birthday, her home state of Mississippi declared a Eudora Welty Day. In Jackson, the capital and her home town, Millsaps College tossed a three-day "Southern literary festival" honoring the occasion. The affair drew pipe-smoking academics, fellow successful novelists and short-story writers, worshipful young writers-to-be, men who have had intimate relationships with plows, veiny-handed country women, root pullers-friends...
...know he saw the Monets and the Manets, and there was some Cézanne, but Picasso is questionable. I think I'm about to change my mind on whether Faulkner was a cubist.' Now that's numbing stuff, and some of it went on with Eudora's work today...