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Newswise (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
A significant addition to the William Faulkner Collection at the University of Mississippi was announced Wednesday evening on the grounds of the Nobel laureate's home, Rowan Oak, during the 35th annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference. The acquisition comprises letters that resulted from a meeting in the summer of 1943 when Faulkner sat down with Hollywood filmmakers William Bacher and Henry Hathaway...
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Scholars and Rogues (Free subscription) | 07/20/2008
For better or worse, cultures tend to rank genres of fiction. So-called serious works, written by the likes of William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and James Joyce, rate well above mysteries, westerns, romances, science fiction, and (certainly) comic books on the literary org chart. There’s justification for this. We rank the stunning complexity of Mozart’s music ahead of chopsticks for a reason: Mozart...
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McCovey Chronicles (Free subscription) | 07/18/2008
"When it comes right down to it…I loves me some Bumgarner…" – William Faulkner, from the introduction to Absalom, Absalom! Don’t bother looking for it. It’s in there. Trust me. Would I fabricate a quote just to amuse the 2% who think I’m funny? But Billy Faulk is spot on; I loves me some Bumgarner. And I’m just giddy about Tim Alderson, too. When I’m feeling down, I go back and read the open draft...
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DB's Medical Rants (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
I have read this quote several times recently in mystery novels. It has no relevance to medicine (that I have yet figured out) but I love the quote nonetheless. The past is not dead. In fact, it’s not even past.- William Faulkner
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Music City Oracle (Free subscription) | 07/10/2008
"The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools." -- William Faulkner, as enunciated by Quentin Compson, in The Sound and the Fury.
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Bookgasm (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Fictional locations are utilized by authors as diverse as William Faulkner (Yoknapatawpha) and H. P. Lovecraft (Arkham). Imaginary towns like Castle Rock (Stephen King), Mud Creek (Joe R. Lansdale), Newford (Charles de Lint), Isola (Ed McBain) and Dempsy (Richard Price) — to name only a few — give their creators free reign to develop histories [...]
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 07/04/2008
Not the quiet town William Faulkner knew 50 years ago, Oxford Mississippi has become a see-and-be-seen place.
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 06/20/2008
At a high-school English class reunion, doses of William Faulkner and a fresh perspective.
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Of all the fictional hamlets American writers have planted, from William Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County to Garrison Keillor's Lake Wobegon, the most complex, luminous place yet might be a little town called Argus, North Dakota. Since she first introduced the town in Love Medicine (1984), Louise Erdrich has gone back to it continually, conjuring the reservation it abuts, the love affairs which bolt...
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The Valve (Free subscription) | 06/02/2008
<< | Monday, June 02, 2008 “What William Faulkner implies, Erskine Caldwell records”Posted by , Guest Author, on 06/02/08 at 12:28 PMA reviewer for the Chicago Tribune made that comparison, and it feels apt, whatever one takes the difference between “recording” and “implication” to signify. Caldwell and Faulkner do seem to be doing something strikingly similar, even if they go about it quite differently....
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KN@PPSTER (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
Bit of a rant/release. Take it or leave it. Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. -- William Faulkner And finally, there is always the possibility that we might actually get some libertarians elected. -- David F. Nolan, in his article calling for the formation of a Libertarian...
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The New Yorker (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
The evening I saw “The Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928),” the theatre company Elevator Repair Service’s rendition of the first section of William Faulkner’s 1929 masterpiece (at the New York Theatre Workshop), about a third of the audience left during intermission. I found this oddly gratifying, but not . . .
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NYtheatre.com (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
A new work by Elevator Repair Service, based on the novel by William Faulkner.—Save $20
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Reason Magazine - Hit & Run (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
The big election news out of last night was the victory of William Faulkner impersonator Travis Childers (D) in the blood-red first Misssissippi House seat. A district that voted 63-37 for Bush over Kerry (up from 59-40 for Bush over Gore) went for the Democrat by eight points. The excuses for Republican loser Greg Davis just aren't there. After losing special elections in Illinois and Louisiana, the...
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RealClearPolitics (Free subscription) | 05/11/2008
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. -- The 1st Congressional District, the northernmost in the most culturally Southern state, has given the nation William Faulkner and Elvis Presley, and next Tuesday will have a special congressional election that will test the Republican hope that Barack Obama and his former pastor can be the basis of a Republican strategy to nationalize congressional races to the disadvantage of Democrats....
