On faithful fiction: Larry Woiwode, Alan Jacobs, & Jay Tolson
This Friday Feature represents three interviews on fiction from Volume 3: Larry Woiwode on what makes good fiction, Alan Jacobs on P. D. James’s The Children of Men, and Jay Tolson on Walker Percy. (29 minutes)
Discussing Walker Percy
Jessica Hooten Wilson and Jay Tolson offer insights into Walker Percy's life and writing, including how Dostoevsky influenced Percy's work. (17 minutes)
Mars Hill Audio Journal, Volume 143
FEATURED GUESTS:
Mark Regnerus, Jessica Hooten Wilson, John Henry Crosby, John F. Crosby, Wynand De Beer, and Sørina Higgins
Wood, Tolson, and Samway on Walker Percy
Ralph Wood, Jay Tolson, and Patrick Samway share some thoughts about Walker Percy’s life and work. (18 minutes)
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)