Links concerning

LOST IN THE COSMOS: The Last Self-Help Book

by Walker Percy



Lost is excerpted on Google Books, books.google.com/ (search for "lost cosmos")

Lost's table of contents, www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/  (currently out-of-order)

Peter Lawler's 3-part essay on Lost (2013), bigthink.com/rightly-understood/did-walker-percy-really-write-the-last-self-help-book and bigthink.com/rightly-understood/walker-percy-and-carl-sagan-part-i and bigthink.com/rightly-understood/the-lonely-self-percy-vs-sagan-part-2-2

Alan Jacobs, Percy and Sagan in the Cosmos (2013), www.booksandculture.com/articles/2013/marapr/percy-and-sagan-in-cosmos.html?paging=off

Peter Kreeft lecture (audio, 1993), www.peterkreeft.com/audio/13_lost-in-the-cosmos.htm

Short review/recommendation of Lost by Adam Frank (2012), www.npr.org/2012/11/30/157305871/an-existential-guide-for-when-youre-really-lost

-- Same, by Tom Bartlett (2010), chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/walker-percys-weirdest-book/23835 

Robyn Leary's interview of Percy as he was finishing Lost, www.doubletakemagazine.org/int/html/percy/

 

Percy speaking at Notre Dame's 1989 commencement, www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I  (the introduction takes up the first 3 minutes or so; Percy begins speaking at 3:58 into this 10-minute video)

Percy's 1989 Jefferson Lecture for the NEH, "The San Andreas Fault in the Modern Mind,"
    www.c-spanvideo.org/program/id/159052 (the introduction takes up the first 9 1/2 minutes; Percy begins speaking at 10:00 into this 1 hour, 2 minute video)   

Percy interview in the Paris Review (1986), www.theparisreview.org/interviews/2643/the-art-of-fiction-no-97-walker-percy

Excerpt from Percy's self-interview in Esquire (1977), www.librarything.com/profile/WalkerPercy

The Walker Percy Project (UNC), www.ibiblio.org/wpercy/

Walker Percy: A Documentary Film, www.walkerpercymovie.com/

Korrektiv Press ("bad Catholics, blogging at a time near the end of the world"), korrektivpress.com/blog/


John O'Callaghan lecture (video, 2010), ethicscenter.nd.edu/programs/catholic-culture-literature-series/strangers-in-a-strange-land

Ralph Wood, An Introduction to Walker Percy, bearspace.baylor.edu/Ralph_Wood/www/percy/IntroductionPercy.pdf

Carl Olson, Traveling with Walker Percy (2004), www.ignatiusinsight.com/features/ceolson_walkerpercy_nov04.asp

Carl Olson, Walker Percy, Diagnostician of the Modern Malaise (2001), www.catholiceducation.org/articles/arts/al0129.html

Ralph McInerny, Walker Percy, ethicscenter.nd.edu/about/inspires/ralph-mcinerny-s-profiles

Marion Montgomery, Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal (1993), www.firstthings.com/article.php3?id_article=5112

Richard Ford on how The Moviegoer "changed his life" (audio, 2005), theconnection.wbur.org/2005/06/23/the-book-that-changed-my-life-part-four

The Moviegoer discussed on the NY Times' "Reading Room" blog (multiple entries), readingroom.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/the-moviegoer/
 

Walker Percy Center for Writing & Publishing, Loyola New Orleans, www.loyno.edu/wpc/

Walker Percy From Pen to Print: An Exhibition, www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/percy/

Percy quotations, en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Walker_Percy

Bhamwiki entry, www.bhamwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Walker_Percy

Walker Percy Resources on the Web, walkerpercyonline.blogspot.com/

Walker Percy at 100 (short bio), www.catholicworldreport.com/Item/4807/Walker_Percy_at_100.aspx (2016)
Another centennial appreciation, spectator.org/a-pilgrims-centennial-walker-percy-at-100/  

Historical marker in Covington, LA (2010), www.nola.com/community/st-tammany/index.ssf/2010/06/walker_percy_marker_finds_a_sp.html
    and www.bestofneworleans.com/blogofneworleans/archives/2010/05/20/walker-percy-plaque-on-the-northshore

More ideas for memorializing Percy (2013), including a slidewhow, www.nola.com/community/st-tammany/index.ssf/2013/03/st_tammany_library_foundation_2.html
    and  (in 2014) www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/a-walker-percy-festival/ and
    www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/walker-percy-weekend-its-on/  and
    www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/walker-percy-weekend-update/

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Alexander Solzhenitsyn's 1978 Harvard address, www.columbia.edu/cu/augustine/arch/solzhenitsyn/harvard1978.html

 

Last updated June 1, 2016