The trio of north Mississippi towns where William Faulkner was born, lived and died form a triangle on territory the reading world knows as Yoknapatawpha County. Faulkner was born in New Albany in 1897. When he was 5, he moved with his family to Oxford, where he lived and wrote until he died of a heart attack in a Byhalia sanatorium in 1962, 50 years ago this month.
OXFORD, Miss. Five decades after his death, William Faulkner still draws literary pilgrims to his Mississippi hometown, the little postage stamp of native soil he made famous through his novels. Oxford inspired the fictional town of Jefferson that was a frequent setting for his stories.
PORTLAND -- Iconic American choreographer and Maine resident Alison Chase. Jazz and blues composer Doug Wamble will present his work "Yoknapatawpha," based on the literary works of William Faulkner, Saturday, June 30, at the State Theatre in Portland. The performance is art of the Portland Performing Arts Festival.
Nobel Prize-winning novelist William Faulkner once wrote: "A person is really three things: who you think you are; who I think you are; and who you think I think you are. Since none of us have control over how others see us, we believe the quality that makes us the person we are perceived to be is the level of authenticity with which we conduct ourselves in the world.
Let's explore the many ways that masters of the sentence play with length and style to make their sentences distinctive. Gabriel Garcia Marquez writes unhurried sentences that almost defy parsing. William Faulkner wrote a nearly 1,300-word sentence that ended up in Guinness World Records, but he used the five words "My mother is a fish" as a complete chapter of a book. Joan Didion can stop us short with simple truths, and she can take us on strolls down labyrinthine corridors.
OXFORD, Miss. - Five decades after his death, William Faulkner still draws literary pilgrims to his Mississippi hometown, the "little postage stamp of native soil" he made famous through his novels. Oxford inspired the fictional town of Jefferson that was a frequent setting for his stories, and it's commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Nobel laureate's death Friday with several events that include a tag-team reading of his novel, "The Reivers," beginning about daybreak.
If you're like me, a lack of new music to get excited about can cause a funk that teeters on the brink of genuine depression. It's akin to the ennui experienced by the reading junkie who lives in a library stuffed full of books he's already read. How many times can you go back to William Faulkner's "Light in August" and pretend that everything's OK? Similarly, if "Pet Sounds" is already tattooed on your DNA, can you really expect it to feel as good as the first 300 times every time you drop the metaphorical (or actual) needle onto the leading groove?
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