Showing posts with label Shelby Foote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Shelby Foote. Show all posts

Friday, June 24, 2011

Daily Dose

From The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy, edited by Jay Tolson

"Well, I ain't doing much, and that's a fact. Enjoy yourself while you can, while you're doing a great work about a great thing that already happened. Because it's a different cup of tea when you get back to making up stories."

From a letter of Walker Percy to Shelby Foote, dated October 19, 1973, when Foote was writing his history of the American Civil War.

Saturday, February 5, 2011

Clerihew for Neglected Fiction

SHELBY FOOTE

The Civil War: A Narrative,
Is not all that I think should live
Of the output
Of Shelby Foote.