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Says Correspondent Russell Warren Howe, New York correspondent for the London Sunday Times: "If Mr. Faulkner no longer agrees with the more Dixiecratic of his statements I, for one, am very glad, but that is what he said...
...dangerous. Foolish, because no sane man is going to make that choice today even if he had the chance. A hundred years ago, yes, but not in 1956. And dangerous, because the idea can further inflame those few people who might still believe such a situation possible. WILLIAM FAULKNER Oxford, Miss...
...novelist's other recurrent theme is race. But as a white American writing about blacks, a trick managed by Faulkner and few others, Banks seems too carefully respectful, an earnest '60s liberal. When Owen Brown realizes that he regards a black farmer as an equal but not wholeheartedly as a friend, his self-conscious queasiness seems oddly modern. Like Owen, the author has often been confounded by his good intentions. When Bob Dubois migrates to Florida in Continental Drift and has a love affair with a beautiful black woman, Banks sets aside his gritty naturalism, and that...
Amis takes as his premise that both the criminals and the police are trapped by stereotypes not of their own making. "No profession has been so massively fictionalized," he writes--and then just piles on. When Hoolihan interrogates Jennifer's boyfriend Trader Faulkner, for instance, he threatens to lawyer up, provoking a response from Hoolihan that will be familiar to all NYPD Blue viewers...
Gray delved into the actual process of writing in a way that few writers do. His assertion that William Faulkner's "prose rhythms" crop up in Morrison's writing, however, left me wondering. Morrison won the Nobel. Do we still have to think she needs a role model? JACINDA TOWNSEND New York City...