I’ve "Quixoted" you to death this week, so today, a “did you know” celebrity fun-fact for a change of pace. Fact #1: ...

Some other book-to-film quick hits: The Sound and the Fury, 1959 Starring Yule Brynner and Joanne Woodward, this may be one of...

INTERVIEWER Do you read your contemporaries? FAULKNER No, the books I read are the ones I knew and loved when I was a young...

Few literary voices are as hard for me to reconcile with the author’s actual speaking voice as William Faulkner’s.  How could the man w...

In 1917, H.L.  Mencken published an essay about what he saw as the abject, cultural wasteland of the American South, titled “The Sahar...

Yesterday’s post got us thinking about literary lineage. Not influence, mind you, but writers who actually beget other writers. I...

INTERVIEWER Can you say how you started as a writer? FAULKNER I was living in New Orleans, doing whatever kind of work was n...

Last time we did this, some of you might have felt that my comparison of David Foster Wallace to the Karate Kid was a little forced. Well,...

I have all but given up on reading As I Lay Dying.  Faulkner called this novel his "tour-de-force," but I am willing to assert tha...

Alas, it's time to look at a first line from a reputable novel once again.  And this novel is very reputable.  Of course, it's none ...

One last movie-related post before I give it a rest: the obligatory author look-alike post. Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris   (winner ...

What if you took Hemingway’s worst book, handed it to William Faulkner, and asked him to rewrite the thing? Ever wonder how that might ...

Well, yesterday I intimated that Hemingway was a simpleton. A pox upon me. To make amends, I thought we’d stack him up against his ...

I've been very kind to Faulkner lately, so before I give him a well-deserved rest, I thought it might be a good time to thump him ...

I’ve talked about what makes a line of prose really jump out at me here . But in my ongoing search for prose perfection I figured I’d start...

 The other day I did something I almost never do. I reread a book. Here’s how it happened. I was coming to the close of Willia...