released 5/31/2019
As yet another Walker Percy Weekend arrives in full splendor, we offer interviews with Jessica Hooten Wilson (author of The Novels of Walker Percy) and Jay Tolson (author of Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy), along with some information about a new book by John F. Desmond called Fyodor Dostoevsky, Walker Percy, and the Age of Suicide.
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- Hooten Wilson, Jessica — FROM THE GUEST PAGE: Jessica Hooten Wilson is the Fletcher Jones Endowed Chair of Great Books at Pepperdine University. She is the author of several books, most recently Reading for the Love of God.
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- John F. Desmond: “Walker Percy and Suicide” — John Desmond uses the novels of Walker Percy to critique the increasing trend in today’s medical fields and in secular society as a whole to affirm, even if tacitly, that suicide is a decision belonging to each individual as a right. (24 minutes)
