This trailer for Win Riley’s Walker Percy documentary announces that the film is coming soon. The New Orleans launch and screening are scheduled for March 10, at Loyola’s Walker Percy Center. (Via.) Percy’s first novel, The Moviegoer, is one of my favorites. See, previously: Walker Percy kept his accent, and in defense of Big Ideas in fiction.
Muriel Spark finally gets an entry in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. In anticipation of Stannard’s bio, I’m reading all of her books, in order.
The latest in Fictionaut’s Line Breaks series is Frederick Barthelme’s first published short story, “Shopgirls.” See also my review of Waveland.
Jonathan Lethem converses with Tom McCarthy tonight (1/7) at the London Review Bookshop. Leave time for some cake.
I’ve been thinking about Saul Bellow’s notion that “art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos.” Coincidentally, Colson Whitehead has declared this ShThFuUpAnWoOnYrNo (Shut the fuck up and work on your novel) Month. And why not? It’s winter, you’re going to be miserable anyway. What better things do you have going on? I’m . . .