National Review, March 28th, 1986
Conversations with Walker Percy
'A GOOD DEAL of my energy as a novelist comes from malice," Walker Percy confeses baldly in one of the interviews in this collection. Sometimes the malice is ill-mastered--after President Kennedy's assassination he reeled off two or three hundred pages of a novel only to discard them later. But Percy's malevolence has also produced two seminal works of non-fiction as well as one of the more significant and consummately funny bodies of contemporary fiction.
Even longtime Percy followers will find valuable bits of information in this volume, which claims to co...
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