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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, March 15, 2021
“The events in our lives happen in a sequence in time, but in their significance to ourselves they find their own order in the continuous thread of revelation.” —Eudora Welty Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 12, 2020
“Don’t be like the rest of them, darling.” —Eudora Welty Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
This Week’s Southernism, Monday, October 28, 2019
“And she would look out the window and see a cloud put up a mask over the secret face of the moon, and she would hear the pitiful cries of the night creatures.” —Eudora Welty, The Robber Bridegroom Photo: Deborah … Continue reading
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, June 3, 2019
“But here I am, and here I’ll stay. I want the world to know I’m happy.” — Eudora Welty, Why I Live at the P.O. Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, May 20, 2019
“Honey, it isn’t the way I would do it, but you go right ahead.” —William Faulkner, responding to a request by his friend Eudora Welty for criticism of a love scene she had written. Photo of Rowan Oak: Deborah … Continue reading
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, July 30, 2018
“A good snapshot stops a moment from running away.” —Eudora Welty Photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
This Week’s Southernism, Monday, December 11, 2017
“I haven’t given a thought to Christmas, except where to get a little whiskey for the eggnog.” — Eudora Welty writing to her agent, Diarmuid Russell in 1947
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, September 25, 2017
“One place understood helps us understand all places better.” — Eudora Welty Louisiana shack photo: Deborah Fagan Carpenter
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This Week’s Southernism, Monday, August 28, 2017
In “June Recital,” a story I wrote laid in a small Mississippi town in the 1930s, a lady comes home from a Rook party to tell her little son what they had to eat: “ ‘An orange scooped out and … Continue reading
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