Walker Percy Short Story Discovered

April 8, 2009 by Rufus McCain at 7:34 pm

The big break came when I turned to a folder in the archives labeled D:55 that had the too-good-to-be-true tab inscription in Percy’s hand: “MISC—Save for book.”

That’s where the twenty-seven-page onionskin typescript of “A Detective Story” nestled behind pages of handwritten reading notes about Dostoevsky texts such as The Possessed and Notes from the Underground.

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