By ANGIE CARNATHAN
Starkville’s Friends of the Library will present its ongoing series, Books and Authors, at noon today at the Starkville Public Library. The program is free and open to the public.
This month features Suzanne Marrs’ “What There Is to Say We Have Said: The Correspondence of Eudora Welty and William Maxwell,” chronicling the friendship between Pulitzer Prize-winning author Welty and Maxwell, her editor at “The New Yorker” magazine through 50 years of correspondence.
Welty herself wrote, “All letters, old and new, are the still-existing parts of a life.”
Reading the letters between these two friends and remarkable fiction writers brings Welty and Maxwell to life for readers.
Marrs said she always looks forward to speaking at the Starkville Public Library.
“Audiences there are well-informed, ask good questions and offer interesting comments,” Marrs said. “Reading and writing are mostly done in silence and in private, but as readers and writers we long to discuss the literary experiences we have had. Thank goodness libraries provide us with opportunities to do so.”
Marrs said Welty and Maxwell were two magnificent fiction writers who were also friends.
“For more than 50 years, they wrote letters to each other, sharing their worries about work and family; their likes and dislikes; their griefs and joys; their moments of despair and hilarity,” Marrs said. “I was privileged to edit these letters, and I want to share some of the insights, the comic anecdotes, the editorial advice and the reading recommendations I discovered in them.”
Friends of the Starkville Library Publicity Committee member Page Leftwich said the Books and Authors program takes place each school year.
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