Word: faulknerisms
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...River. The old South exists solely in the mind and its juxtaposition with present-day Birmingham jars as awkwardly as the idea of putting a city with the Hellenic name of Athens in the middle of Georgia. The Asheville of Thomas Wolfe is a tourist trap of unremitting neon. Faulkner cruised the strip of Hollywood. The capital of the New South is Atlanta--a crypto-futuristic city where you can rise 72 stories in an outdoor glass elevator and drink martinis in a revolving bar and look down on people as they smash their automobiles headlong into one another...
...result, popular psychology goes--of the pain and trauma of the Civil War--a regional bad childhood which now, over one hundred years later, still finds expression in the airless vaults of literature. There's Thomas Wolfe and Flannery O'Connor, Walker Percy and that huge shadow which is Faulkner. Southern Writers are supposed to be totems of our national pain, and to question their existence as a group becomes something of a sacriligious act. We need this "South" for reasons which are deeply buried. We need the South with its chivalry and shitkickers, because it is the only region...
...Norman Sadowsky, Chief of Radiology at Faulkner Hospital, said yesterday it is impossible to tell whether removing the tumor earlier could have saved Glicklich's life...
...that everyone knows and gossips about, the old place going to seed on the outside while a hidden, perhaps unimaginable life transpires behind drawn shades or yellowing lace curtains. A home haunted by its occupants fascinates the neighbors and many, many writers; the phenomenon crops up from Poe to Faulkner to Harper Lee and beyond. That last category now includes Author Marilynne Robinson. Her unsettling first novel deals with the fall of yet another house, but from an unusual vantage. The story is told by an insider who helps pull down the roof...
...school board in 1973 ordered the confiscation and burning of three books that, according to Professor Jenkinson, none of the members had read: Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five, James Dickey's Deliverance and an anthology of short stories by writers like Joseph Conrad, John Steinbeck and William Faulkner. Said the school superintendent Slater: "I don't regret it one bit, and we'd do it again. I'm just sorry about all the publicity that we got." In Warsaw, Ind., a gaggle of citizens in 1977 publicly burned 40 copies of Values Clarifications, a textbook...