MCNY.org Public Programs - all (Free subscription) | 10/06/2008
Curator Sean Corcoran will lead a tour of the Museum's new exhibition Eudora Welty in New York: Photographs of the Early 1930s.
MCNY.org Public Programs - all (Free subscription) | 10/02/2008
Suzanne Marrs moderates a panel of American's most distinguished writers about the connection between Eudora Welty's writings and photographs.
pages turned (Free subscription) | 08/19/2008
I read four books for Maggie's Southern Reading Challenge, which ended last week: Truman Capote's The Grass Harp Flannery O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge Gin Phillips' The Well and the Mine (that cover photo is one taken by Eudora Welty) and Hillary Jordan's Mudbound and they were all enjoyable and well worth reading, particularly the O'Connor. I'd just finished the Capote when Maggie...
Maud Newton (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
“I had a dream that someone told me writers and artists could sometimes couch-surf at the White House…. Miranda July and Eudora Welty had both done it.”
Thinking made Easy (Free subscription) | 08/07/2008
The short story A Worn Path write by Eudora Welty describes Phoenix Jackson is “an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag” (Collected Stories, 142), she is to travel a path that is full of barriers like the thorny bush that threatens to tear her best...
litpark (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
For all you NPR junkies and short story lovers, get ready for DimeStories! To tell you what it’s about and how it began, please meet my friends and the hosts of the show: Amy Wallen, a bestselling author who has been described as “Eudora Welty on speed,” and James Spring, who has, among other talents, [...]
Anecdotal Evidence (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
Montana-born Edward McKnight Kauffer was a childhood friend of T.S. Eliot who later befriended Marianne Moore and Eudora Welty. He was an artist and designer who, in the decades after World War I, created strikingly modern advertising posters . Go here to see photos of Kauffer, including one with Eliot, and more of his work. Like Eliot, Kauffer lived for much of his life in England. He was afflicted...
Everything And Nothing (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Eudora Welty's mastery of the short story will be saluted in a special broadcast 2 p.m. Sunday on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, the Eudora Welty Foundation announced. Eudora Welty: A Tribute in Stories, features Nashville author and PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann...
Apartment Therapy (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Eudora's Kitchen, Jackson, Mississippi, 2007 Photographer Susana Raab’s series “A Sense of Place” invites us into the homes of Southern literary greats – Eudora Welty, Flannery O’Connor and
Yankee Pot Roast (Free subscription) | 05/05/2008
I was passed out drunk on the floor a some Harlem speakeasy, weepin soft-like, dreamin a the sweet, velvet thighs a Eudora Welty!
Yeeeah! (Free subscription) | 04/28/2008
Famed southern writer Eudora Welty once wrote, “A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” Except for in the case of Heather Locklear, where all it stops is your right hand from going anywhere your penis. Heather from a more flattering angle on the set of “Flirting With Forty:” Share This
Doctor Daisy (Free subscription) | 04/14/2008
Since I’ve been on Twitter I’ve noticed people announce when their 1000th “tweet” is coming up. There’s a certain pressure to make it a good one, yet staying within the 140 character limit is always a challenge. Tonight I hit my 1000th and have to admit it was chosen carefully, although only a [...]
Bill Peschel (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
B orn today: Samuel Beckett, playwright, novelist, Dublin, 1906; Eudora Welty, novelist, short-story writer, essayist, Jackson, Miss., 1909; John Gerard Braine, novelist, Yorkshire, England, 1922; Seamus Heaney, poet, Mossbawn, C. Derry, N. Ireland, 1939. Died: Thomas Jefferson, statesman, author, Shadwell, Va., 1743; Wallace Stegner, novelist, Santa Fe, N.M., 1993. Quote for the Day: "We are all born...
composite drawlings (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
Your birthday today: You have perseverance, are energetic and versatile. You are easy-going and when thwarted in your purpose you are resourceful in accomplishing it in other ways. You are quiet and reserved, uncommunicative and do not make friends easily, but hold the few you make. Your love is sincere and steadfast. Just ask Thomas C. Zimmerman 1949, if you can persevere in a search for him. Or,...
wordswimmer (Free subscription) | 04/13/2008
It’s easy to forget where a story takes place when you’re deeply engrossed in a character’s struggle. But place–like character and plot–is one of the essential elements of a story, and, if you ignore it or treat it like a simple backdrop, you’ll miss the chance to deepen your reader’s experience of your story. Every story must have a setting, a place where the action occurs. “Setting exists so
