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Wallace, who hasn't put out a novel since his brilliant, dense Infinite Jest in 1996 (or any other fiction at all in five years), takes it easy on the reader here. Sure, his three-page-long sentences can make Faulkner look like Hemingway, and even short sentences can require four trips to the dictionary, but he has dropped his numbered footnotes, has cut down on the math formulas and tells linear tales nearly grounded in reality. This is as close as the guy is going to get to beach reading...
Thankfully, this story is not fact, but fiction—taken from William Faulkner’s famous novel, The Sound and the Fury. There’s no proof that Faulkner even visited the campus before publishing the novel in 1929. But Faulkner fanatics have ensured that Compson will be remembered alongside other—albeit more visibly memorialized—Harvard figures such as Harry Widener...
Harvard must be a light bulb for pulp fiction moths. Over the years, Erich Segal’s Love Story, Pam Thomas-Brown’s A Darker Shade of Crimson, Jane Harvard’s The Student Body and hundreds of other not-quite-Faulkner caliber books have been set at Harvard. Now Carlotta Carlyle, the red-headed, fast-talking Boston detective and long-running serial mystery protagonist, is walking the campus beat...
...best writers are really quite conservative,” Slavitt says. “Hemingway, Faulkner.... The lefty crazies in college manage to teach these books without ever letting you know that they’re right-wing...
...Faulkner sent a pass cross-ice to Chris Blight who wristed a soft shot through Grumet-Morris’ five-hole...