Time magazine once wrote a story on Eudora Welty, a novelist and Pulitzer Prize recipient from Jackson, Mississippi. It was a story about the silver jubilee celebration in her honor. Jackson named April 13, Eudora’s birthday, Eudora Welty Day, and Milsap’s College staged a southern literary festival. The festival attracted all sorts of outstanding writers from all across the nation, a lot of pipe-smoking academics, and would-be writers too—people who wanted to write, as well as people of the earth, people who were in touch with the soil and with all that Mississippi is about because of their friendship with Ms. Welty. The lectures that were given at the festival were extremely academic, almost killingly analytical, and Eudora didn’t like that sort of thing. She’d often refer to WC Fields w…