Fire forces closure of Jackson library Jul 26, 2008
Dozens of people fled the Eudora Welty Library when the buildings air handling system caught fire this morning ... A fire in the air handling system of the Eudora Welty Library caused evacuations shortly before 10:00 this morning. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Year's 37th homicide bears resemblance to past case Jul 26, 2008
Right: A fire in the air-handling system of the Eudora Welty Library caused evacuations shortly before 10 a.m. Friday. The fire was quickly contained, and no injuries were reported. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Retracing old routes to find a new U.S. Jul 16, 2008
Writers, photographers and editors, some as famous as Saul Bellow, Zora Neale Hurston and Eudora Welty, and others long forgotten, earned as little as $20 a week to produce a series of travel guides about America. "On weekdays and special occasions, these trading centers take on the appearance of pioneer towns, with hitching rails, haphazard sidewalks and crude plumbing," the guide for Washington State said of Winthrop and other towns in the Methow Valley. (International Herald Tribune)
Dreams of Laura Jul 13, 2008
It's easy to imagine all that guilt, shame, conscience, fear, sex and nightmares in the hands of Eudora Welty or Larry McMurtry. Sittenfeld was not out to sensationalize but sympathize. (International Herald Tribune)
Library to host noted literary figure Jun 3, 2008
He resides in Decatur with his wife, Pearl, who teaches at Georgia State and is a noted scholar of the writer Eudora Welty. Dr. Thomas McHaney will present a lecture-discussion type program on Southern Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries. (Calhoun Times, GA)
Welty's house, garden are Jackson treasures May 29, 2008
Pulitzer Prize winner Eudora Welty wrote at the desk in her upstairs bedroom for decades ... "It" is the late Eudora Welty's home, now a major tourist attraction in Jackson's leafy Belhaven neighborhood ... "She always considered this to be her family home and wanted it to encourage the reading of literature, writing and other creative endeavors, not a place to promote Eudora Welty," Redhead said. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Broadcast to honor Eudora Welty's legacy May 21, 2008
Eudora Weltys mastery of the short story will be saluted in a special broadcast 2 p.m. Sunday on Mississippi Public Broadcasting, the Eudora Welty Foundation announced. Eudora Welty: A Tribute in Stories, features Nashville author and PEN/Faulkner Award winner Ann Patchett as emcee and Welty scholar, biographer and friend Suzanne Marrs, sharing thoughts on Weltys writing and work. (The Clarion-Ledger)
MUW's plight May 12, 2008
"I actually like Welty University," student body president Kristen Barnes, 20, said, referring to Eudora Welty, the famed Southern author who was one of the school's most famous alumnae. With that name, the school could still be called The W.. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Something new brewing Downtown (5/08) May 9, 2008
This afternoon I was in the same room with Bret Farve, Eudora Welty, Willie Morrison, Sela Ward, Jim Henson, Faith Hill, William Faulkner, Bo Diddley and a host of other Mississippians. Not only was I in good company, but I had a delicious iced coffee and met some nice people who are offering Columbus some options. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Poetry In Conversation Apr 20, 2008
The Faulkner Festival, Eudora Welty Festival, Richard Wright Festival and Delta Blues Festival bring thousands of people from all over the world to Mississippi annually. Think what California could do. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Book group to discuss The Optimists Daughter Apr 15, 2008
April s choice is The Optimist s Daughter by Eudora Welty, who won the Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for this short novel set in the American South. Anyone who needs a copy of the book can contact reference librarian Chris Woods. (Marshfield Mariner, MA)
Funds seed opera house project Apr 8, 2008
Schriver said planners have been talking to architect Robert Adams, who worked on the Eudora Welty house restoration, as well as Mississippi State University's Riley Center at their Meridian Campus. The facility will be used not only for performances in the old opera house, which is located on the second floor of the building, but also for cultural arts classes such as dance and theater offered through the office of Cultural Affairs. (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
Travelogue: Artist showcases travel photos at local show Apr 5, 2008
Eudora Welty and Dorthea Lange are just a few of the photographers that Hamilton has come to enjoy and respect in honing her craft. Welty and Lange, two women in a male dominated profession and in a male dominated society were able to capture images of American society that still ring with poignancy and tenderness 75 years later, Hamilton said. (Demopolis Times, AL)
In Savannah, aesthetics, assistance work well together Mar 7, 2008
It even boasts a Southern staple, a porch worthy of a Eudora Welty afternoon. Brown's new house is one of only two such homes in the USA, the first in a pilot program that is a collaboration between the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICA&CA) and the U.S. Area Office of Habitat for Humanity International. (USA Today -- Life)
Review: For Leibovitz, image is everything Mar 4, 2008
Eudora Welty and Tom Ridge get tumbled together. So do Rupert Murdoch and Joseph Brodsky. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Storytellers'Selected Shorts' returns to Westport Playhouse Jan 12, 2008
The theme for the first performance, in which short stories are read by known actors, is "The MacDowell Colony: A Centennial Celebration" and will feature actresses Jill Eikenberry, Frances Sternhagen and Myra Lucretia Taylor reading the work of Eudora Welty, Alice Walker and Julie Orringer. Advertisement The genesis of "Selected Shorts" was presented to its host and founder, Isaiah Sheffer, more than 20 years ago when Symphony Space - the New York City arts institution he co-founded and for... (Stamford Advocate)
The curse of the unread Dec 30, 2007
The most likable of those interviewed, if that matters, are Eudora Welty and Alice Munro, both of whom retain an air of modesty in discussing their writing and its inspiration. Among those interviewed is Philip Larkin, expressing distaste for poetry readings. (Boston Globe)
Book review: The Paris Review Interviews, Volume 2 Dec 27, 2007
Eudora Welty, as diffident as she is cheerfully acute, tells of an invitation from Katherine Anne Porter to visit her in New Orleans. Shy, she turned back twice in Natchez, Mississippi, before making it. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Christmas closings Dec 25, 2007
Eudora Welty Library,, Jackson. Medgar Evers Library, Jackson. (The Clarion-Ledger)
LESLIE CRISS - Support a writer: Attend a booksigning or two Nov 13, 2007
I was hoping for a glimpse of Eudora Welty and caught one. But only once. (Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal)
MSU prof gets literary prize Nov 6, 2007
She also has had published more than 40 scholarly essays on Eliot, Plath, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and other internationally prominent writers. Hargrove said she was notified of the award by her former student and SAMLA executive director Lynee Lewis Gaillet, an MSU alumna who also is an associate professor of English at Georgia State University. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
High-wire performers Nov 3, 2007
The same Eudora Welty who wrote that "all serious daring starts from within" was made to prove that claim early in her writing life when New York publishers in the 1930s declined her first virtuoso collection The Wide Net because she wouldn't knuckle down to writing a novel ... A bravura story by Barry Hannah, Julie Orringer or Matt Klam written the day before yesterday stands up quite well beside one written by John Cheever or Eudora Welty 50 years ago. (Guardian Unlimited -- Books)
A toast to 'Shirley Valentine' and everything on her mind Oct 30, 2007
Simpson brings the funny, down-to-earth woman to vibrant stage life again in performances Thursday and Sunday that benefit New Stage Theatre's Eudora Welty New Play Series. Shirley Valentine is evidently the kind of woman you take to heart. (The Clarion-Ledger)
The woman behind 'Princeton Murders' Oct 25, 2007
Waldron continued to have accomplishments as a writer after her move to Princeton; she wrote more children's books and biographies of Caroline Gordon and Eudora Welty. Waldron also took classes at the University through the Continuing Education Program, and following her husband's death in 1981, she accepted a full-time job at the University's Communications Office. (The Daily Princetonian, NJ)
Weekend Bets Oct 20, 2007
Eudora Welty Writers Symposium This annual event, for which the theme is #8216;Amending but never taking back': Hope and Despair as the Closest Blood' in Southern Literature, features headliner Ellen Douglas. Douglas is the pen name for Natchez native Josephine Haxton, who has published six novels, two collections of short fiction and two collections of essays. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Public radio Oct 13, 2007
The Montana Standard. The Montana Standard. (Montana Standard, MT)
Books in brief Oct 6, 2007
She ll also talk about character, the importance of vivid detail, writing groups, the writer s relationship to her characters, the dilemma of persistence, Flannery O Conner, Eudora Welty and finding inspiration on the Amtrak. LeGuin shares at Marine Science Center. (Albany Democrat-Herald, OR)
Library project comes to Clarksdale Sep 27, 2007
The project is designed to increase reading among all Mississippians and to highlight some of Mississippi's extraordinary writers, including Faulkner, Richard Wright, and Eudora Welty ... Beginning with Faulkner, Richard Wright (2008), and Eudora Welty (2009), "Mississippi Reads" will thereafter offer opportunities for reading and studying other writers from the state ... Eudora Welty's Collected Stories is the book for 2009, which is the year for celebrating her centennial. (Clarksdale Press Register, MS)
New Orleans Happy Hour Sep 16, 2007
"For more than 50 years, the revolving Carousel Bar in the historic Hotel Monteleone has been one of the city's favorite gathering spots. In fact, sometimes it's hard to say which is more colorful, the Carousel's bright circus motif or the characters it attracts. This hotel is a literary landmark, and like New Orleans, has a unique personality. When visiting a city, especially New Orleans, I recommend staying at places that are not able to be replicated in other cities. A sense of history... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Travel)
Columbus could become part of tri-state literary trail project Sep 15, 2007
here's been such an abundance of literary talent throughout these states like Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Lillian Helman, Carson McCullough, Harper Lee and Truman Capote, to name a few and this would really help to put their towns on the map, said Jack White, co-coordinator of the local Williams Tribute ... Mississippi should have at least three stops on the trail Columbus for Williams and Eudora Welty, Oxford for William Faulkner and Jackson for Welty and Richard Wright.... (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Presidential historian to headline 2007 Welty Gala Sep 14, 2007
Proceeds benefit the endowment for the Eudora Welty Chair in Humanities. For more information, contact Mary Margaret Roberts at (662) 329-7151 or email. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Eudora E-Mail Application Rises From the Dead Sep 12, 2007
BOSTON Eudora, a pioneering e-mail program named after author Eudora Welty, is rising from a technical grave as an open source program after owner Qualcomm Inc. () quit selling the product in May. Eudora routinely got strong reviews from computer magazines and had a loyal user base, but commercially it was overshadowed by software that Microsoft Corp. () included with new personal computers, International Business Machine's () Lotus software and Web e-mail programs. (Fox News)
'The Women Who Raised Me' quite inspirational Sep 11, 2007
m. today at the Eudora Welty Library, 300 N. State St. Barry McMullan from the Mississippi Writers Guild will appear as William Faulkner and Suzanne Marrs, Eudora Welty biographer, will speak. For details, call Carolyn McCallum at (601) 968-5811. (The Clarion-Ledger)
'Faulkner's World': A look, a book and a detailed read Sep 11, 2007
Faulkner's World: The Photographs of Martin J. Dain, made of William Faulkner and his cultural environment between 1961 and 1963, are on display at Eudora Welty Library as part of the statewide Mississippi Reads project ... So here's hoping a traveling exhibition of photographs, on display at Eudora Welty Library through September, will prompt readers to take a closer look at one of our own and one of our best: William Faulkner ... Sponsored by Jackson Friends of the Library, the event will... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Marketers tout facility being built in Jackson Sep 10, 2007
What events could the Jackson Convention Complex accommodate. State association meetings. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Eudora Penelope Open Source Beta Released Sep 10, 2007
Changing its name in tribute to American author Eudora Welty, Eudora migrated on to a host of platforms, including Windows, Apple Newton and the Palm OS.. Apparently pioneering the concept of an always-present folder list pane, Eudora supported POP3, IMAP and SMTP protocols as well as SSL and S/MIME authentication, and ended up as a commercial product, with ad-loaded free versions also available. (Digital-Lifestyles.Info)
White in America: a long, strange ride Sep 10, 2007
" I honestly didn't know. Of course I got off the bus in Mississippi, more than once. In Jackson, I wanted to find Eudora Welty, but her name wasn't in the phone book. By this time lack of sleep, combined with hot weather, gave the days a kind of hallucinatory looseness. I was at ease on the road for the first time. In a bus terminal farther south, I met a scared teenage soldier on his way from a home leave back to his base, then on to Vietnam. Americans still didn't know anything real about... (San Francisco Chronicle)
Eudora e-mail program reborn as open source Sep 8, 2007
BOSTON (Reuters) - Eudora, a pioneering e-mail program named after author Eudora Welty, is rising from a technical grave as an open source program after owner Qualcomm Inc quit selling the product in May. ADVERTISEMENT. (Yahoo News -- Technology)
Scholars will share dorm with MUW honors students Sep 7, 2007
Louise Hawes, one of the participants for the Eudora Welty Writers' Symposium, will live in the Honors Residence Hall during the week of the Welty Symposium in October. She'll host several sessions with students including one on creative writing and one in which she'll read from her work. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Libraries after returns: Tardy borrowers may avoid fines Sep 4, 2007
Eudora Welty Main Library employee Birdie Anderson (left) helps Amber Williams of Byram rent a audio book for a drive to Baton Rouge ... Eudora Welty Main Library at 300 N. State St. in Jackson ... Patrons who aren't sure whether they have any overdue fines may call their local library branch or the Eudora Welty Main Library's circulation department at (601) 968-5819. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Colorful critters and characters inhabit tales from the heart of Dixie Aug 26, 2007
It's always surprising when someone dismisses a work of literature as merely regional when our greatest American writers were rooted in particular places, from Hawthorne to Dickinson to Eudora Welty. This month, two new children's books come from the heart of Dixie. (Boston Globe)
Reader searching for glass display case to rent Aug 23, 2007
From the mailbag: The Jackson Friends of the Library will have a book sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. in the Buy the Book room at the Eudora Welty Library on State Street in Jackson. They have paperback and hardback books, magazines and trade publications. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Hollywood can't get enough of Jane Austen Aug 10, 2007
"How could her novels ever seem remote?" asked Eudora Welty. "For one thing, the noise -- what a commotion comes out of their pages! The exuberance of her youthful characters is one of the unaging delights of her work ... their tireless relish of life.". (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, PA)
Analog TVs eventually will need digital converters Jul 28, 2007
From the mailbag: Jackson Friends of the Library wrote to let us know they're having a Buy the Book sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the Eudora Welty Library. You'll find all kinds of books and magazines for 10 cents to $1. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Inspiring creativity Jul 27, 2007
Artists make up about 45 percent of the club's membership Organization headquarters is located in the historic, castle-style Pen Arts Building in Washington D.C. Some famous letters members included Eleanor Roosevelt, Erma Bombeck, Pearl Buck, Jessamyn West and Eudora Welty. Today's famous letters members include Anne Tyler, Rosalynn Carter, Barbara Bush, Hillary Clinton and Helen Thomas. (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
NFC fan guide Jul 24, 2007
Famed author Eudora Welty lived only about three blocks from the Millsaps campus, and the school houses a collection of her papers. What to do besides training camp: The Atlanta Braves' Double-A affiliate, the Mississippi Braves, plays their home games about 10 minutes from Jackson at Trustmark Park. (ESPN -- Football News)
New students get the grand tour during MUW summer orientations Jul 19, 2007
The novel in question is aiting for Christopher, a coming-of-age saga by author Louise Hawes, who is scheduled to attend to the campus's Eudora Welty Writer's Symposium in October. Reading the same book, said Fontan, will give freshmen a common experience and, hopefully, a fledgling sense of community. (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Freeman championed our folks' art, now gets awarded for it Jul 10, 2007
He was a Eudora Welty Visiting Professor of Southern Studies at Millsaps College. Our state has offered up a rich assortment for his research and documentation. (The Clarion-Ledger)
'Blues' marathon to concentrate on heart of Jackson Jun 29, 2007
The route is tentatively scheduled to pass landmarks like the home of author Eudora Welty in Belhaven and possibly the Mississippi Blues Marker at the old Subway Lounge. "Having this marathon is going to put another po 00004000 sitive spin on who we are," said Duane O'Neill, president of the Greater Jackson Chamber Partnership. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Donors fight to preserve Hinds County cemeteries Jun 19, 2007
Greenwood Cemetery, established in 1821, is the city's oldest and the final resting place for former mayors and governors, Civil War soldiers, Eudora Welty and the kin of the capital's still-prominent families. Because Mississippi did not issue birth or death certificates until 1912, tombstones often are the only records of when a family member was born or died. (The Clarion-Ledger)
And The Nominees Are... Jun 19, 2007
In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevin's long road north towards celebrity begins. In a memoir that echoes bestsellers like The Liar's Club, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there. (WNBC.com, NY)
Author Unita Blackwell to appear at library Jun 13, 2007
Unita Blackwell, author of Barefootin: Life Lessons from the Road to Freedom, will appear along with publisher JoAnne Prichard Morris on June 28 at the Eudora Welty Library in Jackson. Blackwell and Morris will discuss Barefootin, Blackwells autobiographical story of her life that began as a member of a sharecropper family in the Mississippi Delta in 1933. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Compound to have literary flair May 23, 2007
Construction is under way behind the Congress Street birthplace of writer Eudora Welty on a $2 million compound that includes a restaurant, coffee shop, bookstore and residence for visiting writers ... "Eudora Welty was born there and went to school across the street. Also, (fellow Pulitzer Prize-winning author) Richard Ford grew up in that area." ... The Legislature authorized a bond bill in 1995 for up to $2 million to create a Eudora Welty Writers Center on North Congress Street, but the... (The Clarion-Ledger)
Tupelo author to make guest appearance at writers series May 22, 2007
Author Robert Dalby of Tupelo will speak at noon Thursday at the Eudora Welty Library, 300 North State St., in Jackson. Dalby has written a series of books, including Waltzing at the Piggly Wiggly and Kissing Babies at the Piggly Wiggly. (The Clarion-Ledger)
O'Connor friend, confidante Betty Hester saved letters from the author May 14, 2007
She chain-smoked and read voraciously everything from Aristotle to Eudora Welty. O'Connor was not her only famous pen pal. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- Metro)
Read more... Apr 21, 2007
Scores of Nobel, Pulitzer, and other prize winners appear on the roll of Fellows, which includes Ansel Adams, W. H. Auden, Aaron Copland, Martha Graham, Langston Hughes, Henry Kissinger, Vladimir Nabokov, Isamu Noguchi, Linus Pauling, Philip Roth, Paul Samuelson, Wendy Wasserstein, Derek Walcott, James Watson, and Eudora Welty. The full list of 2007 Fellows may be viewed. (PNN Online)
Mississippi Writers Guild To Visit Forest Sunday Apr 19, 2007
FOREST--The likes of Tennessee Williams, Eudora Welty and Richard Wright will be in town Sunday as part of 'Honoring Historic Mississippi Writers ... As Jackson writer Eudora Welty, Richelle Putnam tells the audience about Welty's Mississippi upbringing and how paying attention to details helped her later form stories ... Appearing at the event will be Eudora Welty, portrayed by Guild President Richelle Putnam; Tennessee Williams, portrayed by Guild Treasurer Dan Lee; Richard Wright, portrayed... (Forest Scott County Times, MS)
Gardens of grandeur: Jackson tour features English, Acadian Southern styles Apr 17, 2007
Volunteer work at the Eudora Welty House garden inspired some choices. A visit to Monet's garden inspired others. (The Clarion-Ledger)
Illustrator schedules school visits Apr 11, 2007
"Eudora Welty always talked about the feel and the smell of books," said Cook, adding that the books really do seem to have a life of their own. "That's something I came to believe in early on, that real people help create books. Hopefully this helps the children connect with books to be able to see the people behind them.". (Brookhaven Daily Leader, MS)
Taking Names Apr 11, 2007
Previous PEN/Malamud Award winners include John Updike, Saul Bellow, Eudora Welty, Stuart Dybek and William Maxwell, Joyce Carol Oates, T. Coraghessan Boyle, Ann Beattie, Nathan Englander, Tobias Wolff and Adam Haslett. Wild' founder jailed Joe Francis, founder of the infamous "Girls Gone Wild" video empire, was taken into custody by federal marshals in Florida yesterday to face a contempt-of-court citation after initially defying a federal judge, APreports. (Washington Times, DC)
Raiding the candy store (4/8) Apr 9, 2007
Another member of the illustrious organization that former President Clyda Rent so aptly dubbed the Long Blue line for the navy blue uniforms all students once had to wear to eliminate class and cultural differences is Eudora Welty, who like me, spent her freshman year in Callaway Hall, the clock tower building that is among those so admired by Dr. Limbert (and by me, I might add) for its collegiate perfection. A budding writer myself, I found it comforting to think of the Pulitzer Prize winner... (Columbus Commercial Dispatch, MS)
Wit & Wag Apr 1, 2007
" When Marlene Dietrich wasn't trying to cook her way into Yul Brynner's pants - dispatching Lerman with homemade doughnuts to the Broadway theater where he was starring in "The King and I" - she was serving up mean morsels about Greta Garbo. Meanwhile, Isak Dinesen offers Lerman buttery "Jew cakes" like the ones his beloved "Momma" used to make. Also making appearances are Arturo Toscanini, Diana Vreeland, William Faulkner, Claudette Colbert, Noel Coward, Helen Hayes, John Houseman, Eleanor... (New York Post -- Entertainment)
VICKERS/My father, the raconteur Mar 22, 2007
Certainly many of the stories related in the works of such Mississippi writers as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, and Willie Morris were known to them because of the front porch story telling in the summer and by the fire story telling in the winter. One wonders what the new generation of writers will do for local stories in the future. (Philadelphia Neshoba Democrat, MS)
Growing up gay in the South in the 1960s. Mar 19, 2007
He was taken under the wing of Frank Hains, the arts editor of the Jackson Daily News, a semi-closeted homosexual who never made a pass at him but introduced him to his close friends Eudora Welty, the writer Charlotte Capers and others who passionately if privately resisted the Mississippi status quo. Hains "was a father figure to me, but it was my mother's absence I was aware of when I was in his presence," and when Hains was savagely murdered in July 1975, it was as great a blow to Sessums as... (Washington Post)
A 'sissy' tells it straight Mar 19, 2007
Some of the book's chapters are light and bubbly: Sessums warmly remembers the bourbon-fueled party atmosphere at Hains' home where Eudora Welty, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a Jackson resident, joined a cadre of local wits and theater professionals for bracing repartee. Other passages in "Mississippi Sissy" leave chills. (San Francisco Chronicle)
