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...TOV/N (371 pp.)-William Faulkner-Random House...
...Peace, but it has more narrative pull. It's a great novel! I know I don't look it, but damn it, it is! It's the greatest novel we've had in America! What else have we got? Look Homeward, Angel? O.K. U.S.A.? Fair. Faulkner? The Sound and the Fury is his best, but not all that...
Pursuing its quarterly inquiry into "The Art of Fiction," the Paris Review tracked down Author Thornton Wilder, deftly skimmed the top cream of his thoughts. Since William Faulkner is convinced that good whisky is an aid to enticing the muse, could Wilder explain how liquor helps? Replied he: "Many writers have told me that they have built up mnemonic devices to start them off ... Hemingway once told me he sharpened 20 pencils, Willa Gather that she read a passage from the Bible, not from piety . . . but to get in touch with fine prose. My own springboard has always been long...
...three second prizes of $25 were won by William Bassetti '59, Duane J. Murner '58 and John E. Trent '57. The first two gave excerpts from "Huckleberry Finn" and "Bleak House" by Dickens. Trent delivered the Nobel Prize Acceptance speech of William Faulkner...
...finalists in the Boylston Speech competition will recite selections ranging in content from Faulkner to Sophocles, Tuesday evening in Paine Hall...