Tell me a bit about Walker Percy's fiction/non-fiction

A lot of significant action does take place in New Mexico, however, and two of the most important characters are divorced.

In college, I met this girl who was stuck in a paper on Percy: when she finished it, she could graduate, so... Meanwhile, I went home for the summer, read The Moviegoer, slipped into the cadence x density, loved it, but somehow one was enough. Although he also figures on my Essential Southern Reading List via Confederacy of Dunces, which he was more or less forced to discover when the suicided author's mother badgered him into looking at the manuscript. Initial reaction was something like, "I read on, with the sinking feeling that it was too good to dismiss."

The beginning of your post is itself like something out of a Walker Percy novel.

I made the grisly mistake yesterday afternoon of reading Percy's 1980 column on abortion.

I checked out The Last Gentleman anyway.