by Eudora Welty
I'd like to believe that all my favourite funny things - Python, KITH, Mr. Show, and numerous others - transcend time and place, and are objectively funny. I know that's not true, as tons of people don't like Python, for example. But I'd like to believe. And I'd like to believe it about all great hu...
Edna Earle Ponder, the narrator of this story, runs the Beulah Hotel, a surprising career for someone as xenophobic as she is. But then, she didn’t choose the hotel; her Uncle Daniel gave it to her. Uncle Daniel has two simple goals in his head: to be the center of attention, and to get people to li...
"The South impresses its image on the Southern writer from the moment he is able to distinguish one sound from another," Flannery O'Connor wrote in her 1963 essay "The Catholic Novelist in the Protestant South," and Eudora Welty expressed a similar sentiment roughly 20 years later in her memoir "One...
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