Eudora Welty Reads From “The Wide Net”

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When Eudora Welty read at 92Y on April 22, 1985, it had been 32 years since her last Poetry Center appearance. “She has graciously declined 31 annual invitations to appear again,” then Poetry Center director Shelley Mason told The New York Times.
“I’m gonna spend the whole time on one story,” Welty told the audience that night. “So don’t think it’s gonna end and something new will happen.” Welty usually read two shorter stories, but this night it was one long one-“The Wide Net,” from 1943. “I decided I’d read something special for the Poetry Center,” she told The Times. As the paper reported the next day, she wore a bright red dress and was flanked by a huge bowl of pink, purple and yellow flowers. Read more: 92yondemand.org...
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[@Naonick2010]

Thanks so much for sharing this..

[@08CARIB]

This is a gem

[@JamesRundeFilm]

more proof EW's the GOAT. also love the way she reads this (not in the annoying inflection that most MFA storyists read now, but in a natural, dramatic voice)

[@gotnotruck]

I WAS THERE AND LOVED HER. I GREW UP IN THE SOUTH, ONE OF MANY WHITE SOUTHERNERS WHO WERE IN THE CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT. PERHAPS YOU'LL INVITE PROF COHEN FROM NYU"S PROF COHEN WHO COEDITED "REBELLION IN BLACK AND WHITE: southern student activism in the 1960s".

[@mesamies123]

Wonderful. Thank you.

[@GreasyKhaleesi]

Coming, Eudora!

[@nationalallianceforprogres3136]

long live democratic socialism and miss eudora welty 😊😊❤😊

[@StarkEd313]

Wonderful! However, the text in the edition I have is a bit different

[@apointofinterest8574]

Well shut ma mouth (and feed my face)!

[@Dragon-Slay3r]

1 ? 😂

[@holden190]

Why no video???