Exploring Eudora Welty's Literary World: A Journey Through Narrative

Episode 33: I discuss Eudora Welty's literary contributions, particularly her short story 'A Worn Path,' and her memoir 'One Writer's Beginnings.' I point out certain of Welty's themes, such as narrative being a journey and that a writer's role is to be attentive to life. I also mention key details about her life and how she structures her work according to revelations.

0:00 A Worn Path, Welty's Defining Work
2:46 About Eudora Welty
3:57 Eudora Welty on Dick Cavett
5:02 More about Eudora Welty
5:34 One Writer's Beginnings
7:55 Narrative as a Journey
11:06 My Half Orange, Written through Revelations
13:09 Writing as Choosing
13:41 Begin with the Particular
14:42 Books as Natural Wonders

Books mentioned:

One Writer’s Beginnings, by Eudora Welty, published in 1983
The Optimist’s Daughter, by Eudora Welty, published in 1972
A Curtain of Green and Other Stories, by Eudora Welty, published in 1941

Short stories mentioned:

“A Worn Path,” by Eudora Welty, published in 1941
“The Death of a Travelling Salesman,” published in 1936
“The Wide Net,” published in 1942
“Where is the Voice Coming From?” published in 1963

Two consecutive episodes of The Dick Cavett Show with Eudora Welty:
Episode One:    • EUDORA WELTY rare half hour interview on D...  
(Welty starts reading from “The Wide Net” at exactly 11 minutes.)
Episode Two:    • EUDORA WELTY on the Dick Cavett Show part ...  

Also mentioned:
Medgar Evers, the black activist whose assassination inspired “Where is the Voice Coming From?”
Elizabeth Bowen, the Irish-British novelist and short story writer (quoted by Welty in One Writer’s Beginnings)

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