Jessica Hooten Wilson is an author and speaker dedicated to the questions: What are the great stories and how do we pass them on? She is the Louise Cowan Scholar in Residence and a professor of Humanities and Classical Education at the University of Dallas. She is the 2019 recipient of the Hiett Prize in the Humanities. Jessica joins Grant to discuss the impact of Walker Percy on questions of evil and the modern human. They talk about Percy's role as the great diagnostician, why Lost in the Cosmos is the last self-help book you'll ever need, and how to develop your own Walker Percy Reading Plan. Topics include:
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The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
Reading Walker Percy's Novels by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Walker Percy, Fyodor Dostoevsky, and the Search for Influence by Jessica Hooten Wilson
The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Kierkegaard on despair
Tertium quid
Lost in the Cosmos by Walker Percy
The Pale King by David Foster Wallace
Prayer in the Night by Tish Harrison Warren
The Last Gentleman by Walker Percy
The Thanatos Syndrome by Walker Percy
Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy
Utopia by Thomas More
Lancelot by Walker Percy
Candide by Voltaire
Giving the Devil His Due by Jessica Hooten Wilson
Flannery O'Connor
Virgil Wander by Leif Inger
The Reason for Crows by Diane Glancy
Father Elijah by Michael O'Brien
Exiles by Ron Hansen
The Second Coming by Walker Percy
