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Occasions - Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Occasions - Selected Writings (Paperback)
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Occasions is a celebration of the short works of one of America's
most beloved writers. To mark the centennial of Eudora Welty's
birth, Pearl Amelia McHaney has collected more than sixty pieces by
Welty (1909-2001) that are largely unknown and have not been
reprinted since their first appearances in magazines, journals,
newsletters, and newspapers. The gathering includes one of Welty's
earliest stories, ""Acrobats in the Park""; a self-analysis of her
art printed in the Twenty Photographs portfolio; a recipe for Aunt
Beck's Chicken Pie served up in the novel Losing Battles; and a
parody of Edmund Wilson's scurrilous New Yorker review of one of
William Faulkner's late novels. These occasional essays, tributes,
stories, and comments will delight readers and reveal more of the
genius of a favorite author deeply engaged with her people and
their customs. In these pieces Welty put pen to paper for just
causes: electing honorable officials, selling war bonds, and
promoting reading and the arts. Her sophistication and insight
resonate in tributes to Isak Dinesen, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker
Percy; in reviews of sculpture, painting, dance, and photography;
and in her candid remarks about her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel,
The Optimist's Daughter. Her sly humor emerges in ""Women!! Make
Turban in Own Home!,"" a delightful parody of projects suggested in
Popular Mechanics. Written between the 1930s and the 1990s, these
fictions, essays, commemorations, reviews, and salutes reveal the
sparkling imagination of a celebrated writer who continues her hold
on a wide audience through these newfound pleasures.
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