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At his death in 1990, Walker Percy left a considerable legacy of uncollected nonfiction. Assembled in
Signposts in a Strange Land, these essays on language, literature, philosophy, religion, psychiatry, morality, and life and letters in the South display the imaginative versatility of an author considered by many to be one the greatest modern American writers.
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Why I Live Where I LiveNew Orleans Mon AmourThe City of the DeadGoing Back to GeorgiaMississippi: The Fallen ParadiseUncle WillUncle Will's HouseA Better LouisianaThe American WarRed, White, and Blue-GrayStoicism in the SouthA Southern ViewThe Southern ModerateBourbonIs a Theory of Man Possible?Naming and BeingThe State of the Novel: Dying Art or New Science?Novel-Writing in an Apocalyptic TimeHow to Be an American Novelist in Spite of Being Southern and CatholicFrom Facts to FictionPhysician as NovelistHerman MelvilleDiagnosing the Modern MalaiseEudora Welty in JacksonForeword to A Confederacy of Dunces
Rediscovering A Canticle for Leibowitz
The Movie Magazine: A Low "Slick"Accepting the National Book Award for The Moviegoer
Concerning Love in the Ruins
The Coming Crisis in PsychiatryThe Culture CriticsThe Fateful Rift: The San Andreas Fault in the Modern MindCulture, the Church, and EvangelizationWhy Are You a Catholic?A "Cranky Novelist" Reflects on the ChurchThe Failure and the HopeA View of Abortion, with Something to Offend EverybodyForeword to The New Catholics
If I Had Five Minutes with the PopeAn Unpublished Letter to the Times
Another Message in the BottleThe Holiness of the OrdinaryAn Interview with Zoltan Abadi-NagiQuestions They Never Asked MeBibliography
Notes
Über den Autor / die Autorin
Walker Percy wrote several books, many of them bestsellers, and is considered one of the greatest American writers of our time. His books include
The Moviegoer and
Love in the Ruins.
