Edward Dupuy

Edward Dupuy serves as founding dean at the Southwest School of Art in San Antonio. He is the author of Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption (LSU Press).

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The 4 p.m. Blues

If today the world and the self are devalued, as Walker Percy has suggested, art—particularly the novel— can awaken the reader to their recovery from '4 p.m. blues.'

By Edward Dupuy

December 2, 2015

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