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Inevitably, Styron will be compared to Faulkner. He lacks Faulkner's almost fatalistic sense that evil is part of the human condition; he also lacks his facility for creating a whole stageful of memorable characters. Styron's achievement is that his one towering figure dominates the entire book. But for both writers, the land is the natural arena for terror, and not since the lynching of Joe Christmas in Faulkner's Light in August has savagery been so harrowingly described. Nat's blood, like Joe's, is part of the American soil...
...radio for picking up the BBC or Radio Free Europe (the only English-language sources of non-Party-lining news) and an assortment of gifts. Tipping is officially not allowed, and many Russians are insulted by the offer of money. But Intourist guides gratefully accept paperback editions of Hemingway, Faulkner and Salinger, jazz records, makeup, ballpoint pens and chewing...
...story from Depression-pressed authors like F. Scott Fitzgerald, e. e. cummings, Dashiell Hammett, Ezra Pound, Thomas Wolfe and Thomas Mann. One exception: Ernest Hemingway, who characteristically demanded and got $200. Much of Esquire's fiction has remained on that level, with postwar bylines including Joyce Gary, William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, Arthur Miller, Paddy Chayefsky, Sinclair Lewis, Albert Camus, Edward Albee, John Steinbeck and Truman Capote...
...more than a million copies since it was published by Yale in 1950; Chicago's Manual for the Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations has sold nearly 900,000 copies. Oklahoma's Plowman's Folly, written in 1943 by a county agricultural agent, Edward H. Faulkner, not only sold 355,000 copies, but, by advocating shallow disk harrowing for small-grain crops instead of deep plowing, literally reshaped the landscape of rural America...
Novelist Carter Wilson's section, "Exposition and Narration" floats in what one Cliffie member calls an "atmosphere of creativeness." This week's two-hour meeting was spent on short stories by Borges, and Eliot, Berkeley, Joyce, Faulkner and Brecht all managed to creep into the discussion...