Eudora Welty RIP

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So it says here -- I didn't realize she was still alive, actually. However, she's always been one of those names I know but whose works I've never read. Classic? Dud? Etc.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Some good stories worth reading, Ned. I didn't know she was still alive either, though.

― Josh, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Time to be ignorant...who am Eudora Welty?

― DG, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

American author, probably best known for her short stories.

Trivia: e-mail client Eudora was named so by Steve Dorner because, he sez, when he was writing it he felt like he was living at the post office (cf. Welty story "Why I Live at the P.O.").

― Josh, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

trivia: is the only pulitzer prize winner, along with jay sherman, who has also won a belching contest.

― ethan, Monday, 23 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

eudora welty is also a great critic , a fine novelist and a haunting photographer. SHe was writing until her death.

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Wrote great short stories if I remember correctly, particularly one about a cross gendered circus performer.

― Mike Hanley, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

Yes ! She wrote about real folks like they were freaks and vice versa, alot of this dark Southern Gothic stuff.

― anthony, Tuesday, 24 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)

ten years pass...

Anybody read Losing Battles, her long novel steeped in oral tradition? The only one of the novels I've finished is The Optimist's Daughter (typical complaints about major story writer lost in the shoals of novel writing).

― a regina spektor is haunting europe (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 17:27 (thirteen years ago)

Oh wow, didn't see the dates on this thread at first and was like "Holy fuck, she was still alive?"

― click here if you want to load them all (Hurting 2), Wednesday, 27 June 2012 18:50 (thirteen years ago)

five years pass...

Did no one ever answer Alfred's question? I only read the same novel he did.

― Guidonian Handsworth Revolution (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 4 July 2017 00:10 (eight years ago)

Have only read some (excellent) short stories, but she's been quoted to the effect that the approach to Losing Battles, her last novel, was a deliberate departure from all previous, so if you didn't like them, you might be in luck, or not.

― dow, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 00:39 (eight years ago)

to the effect that the approach jeez

― dow, Tuesday, 4 July 2017 00:40 (eight years ago)

six years pass...

reading "losing battles" right now as it happens

yeah it's good

longer & slower moving than anything else of hers i've read

― donald wears yer troosers (doo rag), Thursday, 23 May 2024 09:54 (two years ago)

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