Word: faulknerisms
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...peppering his book with cracks about . . . his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana," only time (lower case) can tell how right he is. I dare your book editor to reread any of Lewis' or Faulkner's books of the early '30s in comparison with Arnndel, The Lively Lady or Captain Caution and repeat his claim that they are Roberts' betters. Perhaps Santayana might...
...whose standards are Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana, Roberts' "literary betters...
...badly at first and so did the next three Roberts historicals until he made the bestseller grade with Northwest Passage. Thinking back over the long upgrade, Roberts peppers his book with envious cracks about other people's bestsellers and jabs at his literary betters, including Sinclair Lewis, William Faulkner and George Santayana. Once, peeved because he never got the Pulitzer Prize, he teed off on the selection committee in an ill-tempered article for the Satevepost, took solace from his No. 1 position in a poll of reviewers who thought Northwest Passage deserved the prize in 1938. He decided...
...Philadelphia's Judge Curtis Bok, himself an author (Backbone of the Herring), ruled thoughtfully that nine novels (including works by James T. Farrell, Erskine Caldwell, William Faulkner) seized in vice-squad raids were not obscene. Said the court: "I should prefer that my own three daughters meet the facts of life and the literature of the world in my library than behind a neighbor's barn, for I can face the adversary there directly...
...hurried to Mississippi on location to film William Faulkner's Intruder in the Dust, a novel about an attempted lynching. Twentieth Century-Fox was preparing Pinky, a story about miscegenation, and had in reserve No Way Out, a tale of a Negro intern. In New England, Louis de Rochement, the first to announce a project on the Negro theme, was shooting for Film Classics, Inc. a picture called Lost Boundaries, about Negroes who pass for whites...