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Dashiell Hammett was boru in Saint Mary's County, Maryland, in May of 1894 and died 67 years later a few hundred miles north in New York City. In the intervening years he was a detective, an invalid and one of Faulkner's drinking partners. He annoyed Hemingway, raised the wrath of the McCarthyites, fought in two wars, went to jail and revolutionized the now well-known genre of detective fiction. From Red Harvest through The Maltese Falcon. The Thin Man and a hundred more short stories, he developed and became the epitome of the hard-boiled but literate writer...
...York Hammett drank with Faulkner, drinking so much that they often passed out together at swank parties and were steered to the coat room so as not to embarrass the guests. This was in the mid-thirties, and Hammett was at the height of his work--and of his political calling. Ever since Red Harvest his upbringing and sojourns among the scum that preyed on the poor had made him a devoted Marxist and remained devoted, giving time, money and writing to groups which sought to stamp out anti-Semitism and Fascism...
...tested preference for the un-nice in stories and drama may be obvious, but the reasons for it are surely not. Aristotle, with an eye on formal tragedy, believed that by identification with the anguished souls onstage, spectators could purge themselves of burdensome emotions buried in real life. William Faulkner more than once said that he created characters in violent circumstances in an effort to get at "the truth of the human heart," and it may be that many readers and viewers of fiction have some kindred goal...
...exhibition sometimes argues with its own thesis: often the subject must have selected a likeness to amuse a friend or cloud the public image. William Faulkner, who liked to characterize himself as a back-country farmer, chose a gelatinous, Hollywood-issue publicity shot, with only his pipe in sharp focus, to give to the woman who would become his mistress. The message Faulkner intended to convey with the photo-apparently taken during one of his scriptwriting stints-is as blurred as his visage...
...approved list as a result of academic politics. In planning student programs, explains Carnegie Senior Fellow Arthur Levine, "at most schools, three credits in economics is the same as three in political science. Biology is equivalent to physics. You can satisfy humanities requirements with Shakespeare or science fiction, Faulkner or an introduction to film. It doesn't matter. But it should." One answer, according to Boyer, is requiring all students to take a few well-planned, interdisciplinary "core" courses. Another: special campus-wide conferences about how academic disciplines relate to each other. Sums up Chicago's Dean Jonathan...