Annotations to William Faulkner's The Hamlet (William Faulkner, Annotations to the Novels)
MediaBistro.com (Free subscription) | yesterday
It wasn't long after talk show host Oprah Winfrey 's announcement of her intention to retire in 2011 that publishing insiders began referring to her departure as " a blow " to the industry, one from which it would be difficult if not impossible to recover. "We probably won't see something else to match its overall potential impact on book sales in the broadcast arena any time soon,"...
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#1 NOVAMOV : Full Movie #2 YOUTUBE.COM : Part 1 , Part 2 , Part 3 , Part 4 , Part 5 , Part 6 , Part 7 , Part 8 , Part 9 , Part 10 Directed by Howard Hawks Produced by Howard Hawks Jack L. Warner Written by Novel: Ernest Hemingway Screenplay: Jules Furthman William Faulkner Cleve F. Adams Whitman Chambers Starring Humphrey Bogart Walter Brennan Lauren Bacall Dolores Moran Hoagy Carmichael Music by...
The Washington Times (Free subscription) | 11/22/2009
How many esteemed American movies satisfy the following conditions? • Derived from a novel by a Nobel Prize-winning author; • Made within a year of the book's publication; • Shot with evocative distinction in and around the author's hometown; • Recruited the author's favorite riding horse for a conspicuous role; • Pleased the author but failed at the box-office despite overwhelmingly...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
"In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, [Flannery O'Connor's] collection 'The Complete Stories' was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest's 60-year history." The competition was formidable: collected stories of John Cheever, William Faulkner and Eudora Welty as well as Ellison's Invisible Man and Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow....
Lance Mannion (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
We’ve been watching Ken Burns’ The Civil War and last night we finished the episode that includes the battle of Gettysburg. And when the story Pickett’s Charge, the historian Shelby Foote, the shy-eyed, slow-talking baritone who is the star of the narrational portions of Burns’ documentary, refers to a quote from William Faulkner’s Intruder in the Dust about how for young...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
The National Book Award winners were announced November 18 during a ceremony in New York City. These are probably the major US awards after the Pulitzer Prize, and there are several categories. The prize for fiction went to Irish author Colum McCann for Let the Great World Spin , which is based on life in New York City in the 1970s. The piece was described as an "indelibly hallucinatory portrait...
Bamboo Killers (Free subscription) | 11/18/2009
So as many of you guys already know, Carson picked his top ten loglines . In case you haven't heard about this yet, Scriptshadow, the guy who reviews a screenplay a day and who's blog you should be reading if you are serious about the craft, put up a contest to select a good screenplay from among his readers. First, you submit your logline and he picks 10 he'd like to read. Then, you submit your first...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/16/2009
Author of 12 novels set in the fictional town of Stay More In a series of 12 remarkably inventive novels set around the mythical town of Stay More in Arkansas's Ozark mountains, Donald Harington, who has died of cancer aged 73, constructed a fictional world that drew inevitable comparison to William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. Yet Harington's Ozarks provided him with a distinctive language and...
Artmanjosephgrech (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
A long and eventful day draws to a close and which included two contrasting male film personalities. Today we live is a 1933 released film of a William Faulkner story, set in England in the first World War, of love and heroic self sacrifice starring a young Joan Crawford, a mature Gary Cooper with Robert Young and Franchot Tone. Joan Crawford, as Diana, has grown up with her brother and his friend,...
I'll have one more, and then I'll go... (Free subscription) | 11/12/2009
When insult had a class... : " These insults are from an era before the English language boiled down to 4-letter words. "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway). 'Poor Faulkner. Does he really...
feminist blogs (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"The past is not dead. In fact, it's not even past." - William Faulkner
Valleys Mam (Free subscription) | 11/10/2009
"He had delusions of adequacy." - Walter Kerr "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure." - Clarence Darrow "He has never been known to use a word that might send a reader to the dictionary." - William Faulkner (about Ernest Hemingway)....
MY HAPPY ENDING (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
When Insults Had Class These insults are from an era before the English language got boiled down to 4-letter words. ^ I found these posted on facebook. Quite interesting, since I'm learning about most of these people in history ATM! "He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire." - Winston Churchill "I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with...
Daily Intelligencer - New York Magazine (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
"Who me? The White Oprah?" One of the powers exclusively reserved for Oprah Winfrey and Oprah Winfrey alone has traditionally been the ability to turn an author of contemporary literature from a mere writer into a superstar. Her power is absolute: If you make it onto her Book Club list, you will immediately be vaulted from a mere mid-lister to a perennial best-seller. Even if you are William...
Maggie Reads (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
A gain, I am reminded of the diverse talent Mississippi has to offer after flipping through the photographs of Gloria Norris' new book "Highway 51: Mississippi Hill Country." The coffee-table-size book is a collection of her camera work that is testament to all the singers and writers who made their homes along the mainline between Jackson and Memphis. She spreads a wide net at times. The...
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