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I found (Fiction professor) Michael Griffith in my mailbox today. His piece Beautiful, Desirable, and Dead: Is Eudora Welty Weirder Than You Think? is in the latest issue of the Oxford American. It’s not online, so you’ll have to go find a copy. Griffith’s punchy reading picks away Welty’s reputation as the “hydrangea-blue” Southern Lady of fiction to locate the acerbic punk of her early and less-anthologized stories.

Eric Sundquist’s book “King’s Dream: The Legacy of Martin Luther King’s ‘I Have a Dream’ Speech” appeared in January. Students from last summer will recall that Professor Sundquist read part of the manuscript of the book when he visited Sewanee. The School and its students are thanked in the “Acknowledgments” of the book.