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Critical Symposium: Patrick Samway on Walker Percy

Wednesday, March 28, 2012 by Patrick Samway, S.J.

Welcome back to Open Road’s fourth Critical Symposium. Our subject in this month’s series is Walker Percy, author of the classic novel The Moviegoer. Today’s contribution comes from Patrick Samway, who wrote the definitive Percy biography. In an enlightening personal essay, Samway describes his special friendship with the writer The New York Times called “our severest moralist, and one of our most philosophical novelists.” Please feel free to share with us your thoughts about Percy and the latest Critical Symposium in the comments section below.

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pull quote In the early spring of 1988, I spent a week in ...

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Category:: Critical Symposium

Tags:: Palm Sunday, Walker Percy, Essays, Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters, Signposts in a Strange Land, Greenville, Critical Symposium, Ellen Douglas, Birmingham, Josephine Haxton, Spirituality, Patrick Samway, Alabama, The Thanatos Syndrome, Eudora Welty, Catholic, Interview, Manresa Retreat House

Open Road Media Names Tina Pohlman Publisher

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Former VP and Publisher at Crown Will Lead Open Road’s Editorial Services, Expansion into New Verticals, and Acquisition of New Titles

Pohlman Will Oversee a Growing Editorial Team That Already Includes the Recently Announced Betsy Mitchell for Sci-Fi and Fantasy and Nita Taublib for Romance

Pohlman Has Worked with Amos Oz, Rebecca Skloot, and Colson Whitehead, and Managed Backlists of Writers Like Virginia Woolf and Eudora Welty

(New York, NY - February 15, 2012 ) Open Road Integrated Media (www.openroadmedia.com), a digital publisher and multimedia content company, announced today that Tina Pohlman is joining the company as Publisher. Pohlman, a former ...

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Category:: Press Releases

Tags:: Rebecca Skloot, Colson Whitehead, Tina Pohlman, Betsy Mitchell, Virginia Woolf, Nita Taublib, Eudora Welty, Amos Oz

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