Local Book Club

Resources for local reading groups on Walker Percy, including discussion questions for downloading

Binx Bolling

"Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion..."

— Walker Percy

Reading and Discussion Materials

The Moviegoer

The Project's Resources on The Moviegoer page provides a summary of The Moviegoer, a short biography of Walker Percy, and a quiz on the novel, as well as other introductory materials of use to a reading group.

For discussion questions, download the PDF version of The Moviegoer quiz.
Purchase copies of The Moviegoer through the Project Bookstore.

Orignial Cover (1961 edition)
Winner, National Book Awards 1962 for Fiction

Other Reading Opportunities

Slow Reading Groups

Interested Percy readers may also participate in an online Slow Reading Group of a Percy novel after joining the Percy-L listserv community. Any member may suggest a novel (or essay) for an enlivening chapter-a-week discussion. Past group readings during the summer months include The Moviegoer (see bottom of page), Love in the Ruins, and The Second Coming.

— Join the Percy-L listserv community.

All Discussion

View all discussion opportunities offered by the Project. We welcome your responses to the Project's content and discussion opportunities.

The Walker Percy Educational Project is a volunteer effort. Though the Project is hosted by the Ibiblio Network of The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, it is not formally associated with nor funded by any university, government, state, or other agency.

Fostering Inquiry into the Life, Work, and Thought of
20th Century American Writer and Philosopher Walker Percy, M.D.