BEST OF BLOOM: Walker Percy, The Original Moviegoer
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Nonfiction

BEST OF BLOOM: Walker Percy, The Original Moviegoer

by Lisa Peet

“It is not like learning a skill or a game at which, with practice, one gradually improves. One works hard all right, but what comes, comes all of a sudden and as a breakthrough. One hits on something… It is almost as if the discouragement were necessary, that one has first to encounter despair before one is entitled to hope.” Continue reading

Walker Percy: The Original Moviegoer
Author Features / Features / Fiction / Nonfiction

Walker Percy: The Original Moviegoer

by Lisa Peet

“It is not like learning a skill or a game at which, with practice, one gradually improves. One works hard all right, but what comes, comes all of a sudden and as a breakthrough. One hits on something… It is almost as if the discouragement were necessary, that one has first to encounter despair before one is entitled to hope.” Continue reading