when speaking of eudora welty, my students always ask me why i usually refer to her as ms. welty. until now, my response was that referred to her otherwise would violate southern manners and we were ever never really acquainted. but tonight, i feel compelled to refer to her as eudora. as a longtime student, and now teacher of her work, i've gained a closeness with her through my explorations with my students of the lyricism and irony and scientific descriptions and narrative structure of both perfection and her photographs. for a year i even lived in the shadow of her house on pinehurst street in jackson mississippi while i taught at millsap college, a place where she also taught writing. during that time, i came to think of eudora more as a neighbor. then as a distant literary figure. it was difficult for me to continue to be so formal. now, in her essay anomalous crusade she ponders whether works of literature should take crusading positions. the novelists work neither corrects nor condones, not at all to comfort but to make what's told alive, eudora wrote. that the novel is not

. >> i'm here for the eudora welty lecture. i'm in the board of directors of the eudora welty foundation and its national advisory. our mission is to preserve the literary legacy of eudora welty and to encourage writers in literature. the eudora welty lecture is a collaborative enterprise of the

outside of this country to begin with in the election welty all this twitter to explain how it identifies accounts related to so-called russian propaganda but so far we've had no reply u.s. lawmakers have accused the site of playing host to a torrent of dissin from asian during the twenty sixteen election campaign which is that it would work to identify and inform people about the alleged propaganda. a letter that i wrote calling on these companies to individually inform all users who are exposed to false misleading and inflammatory posts generated by russian agents we will be working to identify and inform individually users who may have been exposed to the ira accounts during the election. it's nearly impossible to be able to show what is actually political propaganda because in and election cycle everything can be considered political propaganda and what is considered a different country meddling in another country's election because i've been contacted i've done digital marketing before for many people and i think contacted by foreign leaders to run their digital campaigns into social