Annotations to William Faulkner's The Hamlet (William Faulkner, Annotations to the Novels)
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...
Sophisticated Finance (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
Will Price is a blogger who I like very much. In a post today he references a quote from William Faulkner, which is below.
Rafe McGregor (Free subscription) | 11/02/2009
It's been some time since my last McConfidential, so I'm very pleased to be back with one of my favourite hardboiled detective story authors, Sean Chercover . The natural successor to Chandler, Parker, and Crais, in my humble opinion... Rafe: Tell me a bit about your latest novel or current series. Sean: Trigger City is the second book about Chicago investigative reporter-turned PI Ray Dudgeon, who...
Execupundit.com (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell The Pedestrian by Ray Bradbury
A Day In the Life (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
I've been out a couple days from work with illness, flu I guess. I'm not sure but my stomach is the worst for the wear. There is a lot of stress in our work, it contributes to ill health. There are unreasonable demands. But working too late, and coming too early, it "don't get the things done" that are required. So now I'm ill whatever the reasons. I'm not great with that, too many real issues...
Tuscaloosanews.com (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
By Cecil Hurt “All of us fail to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.” - William Faulkner.
Tiny Mix Tapes (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Eerie indie folk songstress Marissa Nadler recently set out on a month-long U.S. tour with the similarly styled Alela Diane. Nadler's latest release, Little Hells, came out earlier this year on Kemado, and was — as usual — packed with haunting tunes that come off like the soundtrack to the most wistful Southern Gothic novel ever (screenplay by William Faulkner and Angela Carter, starring...
Japan Times (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
PARIS — A nation's relationship with its past is crucial to its present and its future, to its ability to "move on" with its life, or to learn from its past errors so as not to repeat them. This includes the past that isn't dead and buried — "in fact, it is not even past," as William Faulkner famously said. Such a past obsessively blocks any possible evolution toward...
The Kill Zone (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
by James Scott Bell I find it wonderfully ironic that I share the name of the man who many say was the fastest to ever play baseball. Ironic, because speed afoot was never my gift, as it was for James "Cool Papa" Bell. Another legend from the old Negro Leagues, Satchel Paige, was once asked just how fast Cool Papa was. Satch replied, "He can turn the light out and be in bed before the...
Democralypse Now (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Another day, another double-consonant named Republican acts like a moron and reminds us why we should never trust public officials with unnecessary additional letters in their names. Asked about his participation in the Congressional Sportsmen Caucus during an interview with Politico, Mississippi Republican Rep. Gregg Harper replied: "We hunt liberal, tree-hugging Democrats, although it does...
POE'S DEADLY DAUGHTERS (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
I was looking at a list of banned books , and found myself amazed anew at the idea that anyone would feel so powerful and so right that they would take it upon themselves to attempt to control the flow of information into another person's life, another person's mind. And yet books are banned every year--books many of us consider great, important, wonderful works of literature. Consider the list below,...
ricklibrarian (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Since 1982, librarians Janet G. Husband and Jonathan F. Husband have been helping librarians and readers everywhere identify fiction books in series with their reference books. Now in 2009, the couple have finished the 4th edition of their Sequels: An Annotated Guide to Novels in Series , published by the American Library Association. Of course, the guide has grown much in the ensuing years. The first...
2 Blowhards (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Donald Pittenger writes: Dear Blowhards -- I recently wrote that California's time as national lodestar might have passed. If that assessment is correct, then what areas might replace California as America's goto place (figuratively and maybe even literally)? Perhaps there's no single replacement area. As observers such as Terry Teachout have been noting, culture in the USA is becoming increasingly...
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