This collection of interviews supplements "Conversations with
Walker Percy" and occasions an additional two dozen pleasurable
encounters with Percy. Primarily from the last ten years of Percys
life, they show how his presence was stimulating thought in much of
humanistic America, in literature, linguistics, psychology, and
philosophy, and in cultural life in general.
Although this acclaimed author of "The Moviegoer, Lancelot, "
and "Love in the Ruins" never overcame his shyness with
interviewers, he continued to grant interviews as long as his
health permitted. This act of openness illustrates his humility
before his ideas and his desire to help others understand them.
The interviews in this collection show him at a height when he
knew that his illness would not allow him to write any more books,
and that the only way to restate his ideas and offer a valediction
to the large audience to whom he had always been kind, patient, and
appreciative was to speak out. Percy d
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