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...doing his job, the work is hard to put a name to. What precisely is it that you did, Professor Bush? Every teacher knows the boredom and terror of that question. A teacher of French teaches French, a teacher of piano, piano. But a teacher of Proust, Austen, Donne, Faulkner, Joyce? Are not the writers the teachers themselves? Oh, one can see the need for a tour guide now and then: notes, terms, some scraps of biography. But surely the great books were written for people, and if they require the presence of middlemen, then they could never have been...
...Faulkner's Snopeses had ever taken up piano, he might not have played like Lewis, but he could well have acted just like him. Four times married (and not always with the benefit of previous divorce), a few times rich, many times broke, Lewis was briefly, with Presley away in the Army and the youth of America hot-wired by the strains of Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On and Great Balls of Fire and High School Confidential, the Absolute Supreme Being of rock. But scandal brought him low: the British press cooked up a fine frenzy over...
...demolition, first praise him. Reporter James Conaway speaks of Morris' "extraordinary autobiography, North Toward Home," and of his editorship that "many people think was Harper's finest time." But that was years ago; Conaway now finds Morris living in Oxford, Miss., the home town of William Faulkner. At 48, Morris is "drinking bourbon by the fire" in the house of Faulkner's niece. He has, Conaway observes, "grown broad of beam," sitting there with his dog Pete, "a black Lab with the canine equivalent of a beer belly." Conaway sketches in the intervening years: at Harper...
...Faulkner's niece Dean Wells and her husband Larry admire Willie Morris. Morris had wanted to come back to Mississippi, no longer felt at home in his native Yazoo City, Miss., and wanted to teach at Ole Miss. It was Larry Wells who made this possible, rounding up extra money from businessmen around the state so that the university's English department could afford to take on Morris as writer-in-residence. He had even wheedled $5,000 out of the Ole Miss journalism department...
...growing number of women writers are making the message familiar. In nine books in twelve years, Anne Tyler, 41, has populated an imaginary Maryland town with characters as memorable as those of Faulkner country. The hero of Morgan's Passing is a loud, daffy, unfathomable presence, as unexplainable as an Ahab. Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant, her most recent novel, uses an eatery as a metaphor for family life, in which food is the stuff of history, and patrons are constantly eating and running away. The wife of an Iranian child psychiatrist who is also a novelist, Tyler still...