William Faulkner
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Faulkner’s Failures
Before becoming an acclaimed novelist, William Faulkner was a failed poet. NPR looks at what drove Faulkner from poetry to prose.
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Faulkner’s Quarter
At The Daily Beast, Nathaniel Rich riffs on William Faulkner’s New Orleans: William Faulkner had recently begun a draft of “Dark House,” the novel that would ultimately become Absalom, Absalom!, when he arrived in New Orleans on February 15, 1934. He…
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Guildtalk #1: The Rumpus Interview with Eddie Joyce
Guildtalk, brought to you by The Rumpus and the Authors Guild, brings attention to exciting new voices in American literature. The first installment features Richard Russo and Eddie Joyce.
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The Rumpus Interview with Christian Kiefer
Writer, musician, and poet Christian Kiefer discusses his literary influences, the “beautiful, beat up, and weird town” that is Reno, and writing from the perspective of beasts in his new novel The Animals.
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This Week in Short Fiction: Thus Were Their Faces by Silvina Ocampo
Probably more than anything else, sheer curiosity propels readers through [Silvina Ocampo’s] stories.
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On Faulkner and Cocktails
There are two Faulkners, and each of these Faulkners is embodied by one of the author’s two favorite drinks, as Robert Moor posits in a recent Paris Review article. The julep is High Faulknerian. Taking in the dense, lush language in…
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Emily Dickinson: Karaoke Queen?
For Bookish, music writer and self-described “karaoke ho” Rob Sheffield lists which songs famous authors of the past would have belted out on karaoke night. He’s unquestionably right about Oscar Wilde crooning something from The Smiths, though it seems a…
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Faulkner Goes Postal
Take a look at William Faulkner’s resignation from his postmaster job, which appears at Letters of Note: As long as I live under the capitalistic system, I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But…
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The Wishing Tree
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings got her hands on a copy of William Faulkner’s only children’s book, written for his stepdaughter (and a few other children in his life) and published in a print run of 500. With words like…
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This here post is for the Faulkner Fans
Marco Kaye’s “As I Lay Buying” takes Faulkner’s classic backwoods family, The Bundrens, and throws them into a modern Macy’s for some Holiday shopping. What more can we say–it’s funny. And even if you didn’t like As I Lay Dying,…
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Multicolored The Sound and the Fury Finally Published
When William Faulkner originally published The Sound and the Fury, he wished Benjy’s narrative could be printed in different colors to denote different time periods, lamenting that “I’ll just have to save the idea until publishing grows up.” Now it has: The…
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Listen to Faulkner Read
William Faulkner secured the first Writers-in-Residence position at UVA and held the position for two terms. This site has sonically preserved Faulkner’s residency in the form of these recordings. He held readings, gave a couple addresses and answered questions from…