Article: J.F. POWERS R.I.P. : Catholic storyteller.

On a Sunday afternoon in the mid 1960s, I turned on the Chicago fine- arts station in my car radio and heard a gently amused voice discussing J. F. Powers's novel Morte D'Urban. It was soon obvious that the voice belonged to the author. He seemed a man very like the stories he wrote- wry, sad, funny, wistful, and hopeful. He told us how he missed Urban now that the story was finally written. I hung on every word. I had read each of Powers's stories as soon as they appeared and was delighted that both the man and his words seemed to confirm what I felt about the stories. Here was indeed a Catholic storyteller in an era when the wise Catholic critics of both the right and ...

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