Word: faulknerisms
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...make matters worse, in 1950 somebody told Faulkner that he had become a public figure upon receiving the Nobel Prize and that he must thereafter speak his mind in expository prose. Magazine editors descended upon him begging for articles. There followed a series of pieces from 1952 to 1956, such as his essay on Mississippi for Holiday and "A Guest's impression of New England" for the Ford Motor Company, none of which enhances Faulkner's reputation...
...Faulkner began to enter the integration hassle. He wrote an article for Life explaining how the South could handle its racial problems by itself...
...book contains fifteen public speeches which demonstrate conclusively how bad a public speaker Faulkner was. I am convinced that the girls in the graduating class of Pine Manor J.C. in 1953 can scarcely recall today Faulkner's extended metaphysical diatribe on God and the Devil. Aside from his widely-celebrated speech upon acceptance of the Nobel Prize and his speeches at the University of Virginia (already collected in Faulkner in the University), the speeches are too brief and dull for publication...
...Faulkner's three Introductions are readily available elsewhere; his three book reviews should charitably be burned. In seven sentences, for example, he calls Hemingway's The Old man and the Sea "His best," because "This time he discovered God." Perhaps the review represents a cleverly-couched slap at Hemingway. Let us hope...
...public letters which Meriwether has assembled indicate that a complete collection of Faulkner's private letters might prove highly interesting...