Walker Percy Weekend

A Literary Festival Celebrating The Acclaimed Novelist's Life And Work

Good food, craft beer and bourbon, live music, and a great time talking about books and Southern culture under the live oaks: That's what the ninth annual Walker Percy Weekend has to offer when it returns to celebrate the acclaimed novelist's life and work, in St. Francisville, LA.

Schedule of Events:


8:00 am - 5:00 pm: Registration - The Conundrum Bookstore, 11917 Ferdinand Street

8:30 am - 10:00 am: A Conspiracy of Dunces: Mystery and Majesty in a Writer's Life presented by BRYAN GIEMZA - Catholic Hall - Mt Carmel Church, 11485 Ferdinand Street, St Francisville

10:15 am - 11:45 am:  South to the Future : Teaching and Writing about the Speculative South - Catholic Hall - Mt Carmel Church, 11485 Ferdinand Street, St Francisville
Panel Discussion , Presented by Brannon Costello , M O Walsh & Olivia Claire Friedman

12:00 pm - 1:30 pm: Book Club Lunch - Education Building - Mt Carmel Church, 11485 Ferdinand Street, St Francisville
Choose from 1 of 3 topics , pick up a lunch and join us.
(Boxed lunches will be available for pre-purchase and delivered outside of the venue)  

Topics are:

Herman Melville (essay originally published in The Criterion also included in Signposts in a Strange Land ) Moderated by Bryan Giemza
Love in the Ruins - Moderated by Jennifer Frey
The Last Gentleman - Moderated by Brannon Costello

1:45 pm - 3:15 pm: Satire, Self-Knowledge, and the Speculative South presented by Dr. Jennifer Frey - Courthouse, Prosperity Street, St Francisville

3:30 pm - 5:00 pm: My Southern Odyssey presented by Richard Grant - Courthouse, Prosperity Street, St Francisville

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm: Progressive Front Porch Bourbon Stroll
Porches in the Historic District, see map on back of brochure

7:00 pm - 10:00 pm: A Taste of Louisiana Supper - Grace Episcopal Churchyard under the Oaks , St. Francisville
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