Eudora Welty

Jul 19, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Eudora Welty

It was December — a bright frozen day in the early morning. Far out in the country there was an old Negro woman with her head tied in a red rag, coming along a path through the pinewoods. Her name was Phoenix Jackson. She was very old and small and she walked slowly in the dark pine shadows, moving a little from side to side in her steps, with the balanced heaviness and lightness of a pendulum in a grandfather clock.

May 23, 2024 | everand.com | Ellie Harrison |Michael Dirda |Eudora Welty |Scarlett Archer

When it comes to being whisked away into a whole other world, nothing quite beats a book. Unlike a TV drama or a big new cinema release, words on a page encourage you to conjure whole universes inside your mind – textures, smells, landscapes, emotions, adventures. Whether fiction or non-fiction, books can make us feel seen. They can help us escape. They can serve as a guide. A lot of the time, they can even shape our lives.

Nov 29, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Eudora Welty

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Nov 28, 2023 | theatlantic.com | Eudora Welty

A Mississippian who early established herself as one of the abler writers of her generation, Eudora Welty has contributed many fine things to the Atlantic, including her stories “A Worn Path,” “Powerhouse,” and “Why I Live at the P.O.,” and her short novel Delta Wedding.

Mar 20, 2023 | newyorkfolk.com | James White |Eudora Welty |Norman Maclean

Much of the plot of Willa Cather’s Death Comes for the Archbishop is lost to me, though I consider it one of my favorite books. I have a sense that it involves a young priest rising through the ranks of the Catholic Church as New Mexico is flooded by settlers, and I also know that—spoiler alert!—he dies at the end. But what remain indelible are two oddly mathematical vistas.