Book Reviews by Eudora Welty

I have just finished reading Eudora Welty's reviews collected by Pearl McHaney under one title A Writer's Eye. The book collects all sixty-seven of Welty's reviews of seventy-four books. They are really beautiful. As Pearl McHaney puts it "Though they are in her own view, a minor chapter in her life's work, Welty's reviews are as sensory-laden, as thoughtful, and as well crafted as her stories". I can not agree more. I really enjoyed Welty's review of Nine Stories by J.D.Sallinger. Any student of William Faulkner should read Welty's reviews of Intruder in the Dust and Selected Letters of William Faulkner by Joseph Blotner. I checked the article on the photographs taken in Russia by Henri Cartier-Bresson, on the collection of Russian Fairy Tales and my only complaint is that she has not reviewed more books. I would love to know what she thought about some. Such an intelligent, knolegeable, tactful and sensitive lady of letters! I should probably work on copyright permission for translating of some of the reviews into Russian.

Back to Academic Writing

This year for the first time since 1990 (when my article on Louise Erdrich was published) I made two more "public appearances". The first one was in April. I posted a report on photography in Eudora Welty's life. The Conference took place in Perm (Southern Siberia) at Perm State University. Here is how it looks in Russian: "Фотография в жизни Юдоры Уэлти" Постерный доклад на международной научно-практической конференции "Пограничные процессы в литературе и культуре". Пермский государственный университет, 16-19 апреля 2009 г.

Encouraged by the success I had an article on Eudora Welty and Photography published in a book printed in Krasnodar. For me it is a major milestone. At some point I thought that I would never go back to academic life. If it were not for Miss Welty I probably wouldn't. And now the more I read the more I want to share what I have found out! Anyway I am proudly displaying the cover of the collection with a very learned name: "Inerdisciplinary Aspects of Linguistic Studies" Krasnodar, 2009. My article is in Russian and I have posted it on my Russian language website dedicated to Eudora Welty
http://sites.google.com/site/eudoraweltyinrussia/fotografia-v-zizni-udory-uelti