Showing posts with label William Faulkner. Show all posts
Showing posts with label William Faulkner. Show all posts
Thursday, October 8, 2015

Sara Jaffe: From James Baldwin to Lynne Tillman—four influences on Dryland

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Dryland by Sara Jaffe (Tin House Books, 2015) Our series of guest posts by writers of fiction, poetry, essays, and history continues to...
Friday, August 31, 2012

Remembering Faulkner scholar Noel Polk (1943–2012)

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On August 21, Noel Polk, professor, literary scholar, critic, and poet, died at his home in Jackson, Mississippi. Emeritus Professor of Engl...
Saturday, August 20, 2011

Rodney Welch on the many contradictory lessons in At the Fights: American Writers on Boxing

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Which is more important in boxing: muscle or skill? Do the most successful fighters crave violence—or transcend it? In his incisive review f...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Timothy Schaffert on how Ambrose Bierce, Willa Cather, and William Faulkner have treated “our often tawdry funerary customs”

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The Coffins of Little Hope by Timothy Schaffert (Unbridled Books, 2011) Timothy Schaffert joins our continuing series of guest blog p...
Tuesday, March 29, 2011

William Faulkner’s last surviving relative, Dean Faulkner Wells, shares her memories

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Earlier this month Dean Faulkner Wells, the last living relative with firsthand memories of William Faulkner, published her deliciously anec...
Friday, September 24, 2010

William Faulkner and The Sound and the Fury: It’s good that he didn’t wait “until publishing grows up”

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Although William Faulkner was born toward the end of the nineteenth century (on September 25, 1897), the history of the publication of his m...
Tuesday, September 14, 2010

Presidents and the classics

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The recent spate of articles over President Obama’s summer reading prompts an inquiry into how well acquainted our presidents have been with...
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Friday, July 16, 2010

Listen to William Faulkner online

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The University of Virginia recently posted audio recordings of William Faulkner reading and answering questions in 1957 and 1958 during his...
Monday, July 12, 2010

James Avati, “King of the Paperbacks”

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Tally Ho! recently posted images of several favorite paperback covers of William Faulkner novels from the ’50s. Many of these covers were c...
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