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James Joyce's Ulysses topped the Modern Library's list, while The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, took Radcliffe's top spot. Two other books--Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck and The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner--won spots in the top 10 of both lists...
...multiple narrative voices and extravagant wordplay made Ulysses a virtual thesaurus of styles for writers wrestling with the problem of rendering contemporary life. Aspects of Joyce's accomplishment in Ulysses can be seen in the works of William Faulkner, Albert Camus, Samuel Beckett, Saul Bellow, Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Toni Morrison, all of whom, unlike Joyce, won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...President of Harvard carries a great dealof weight in national decisions," Faulkner said...
...there was still the idea of being a professional writer. Writers like Hemingway and Faulkner were people you were supposed to admire," he said...
...most liberated of them all may very well be a man whose given name is Floyd Jr. but went as "Bubba" as a boy. Collin Raye's ideal woman not only demands to be the one driving on their first date, she "quoted William Faulkner and Martin Luther King"--no intellectual slouch she. However, Raye's most feminist hit to date is "I Think About You," which won awards for raising awareness of spousal abuse and address all kinds of oppression women face, from safety issues to questions of pornography. (When was the last time a male singer in another...