Word: faulknerisms
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...came along, Mencken failed to perceive the German danger and, as Fecher notes, "brushed off Nazi treatment of the Jews." His literary criticism was sometimes blind to contemporary talent: he thought Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath was "full of pink hooey" and found no more sense in Faulkner than in "the wop boob, Dante." He never understood the scars of the Depression and compared the New Deal efforts of Franklin D. Roosevelt to those of "a snake-oil vendor at a village carnival...
Ralph Lowell '12, distinguished Boston resident, civic leader and philanthropist, died Monday in Faulkner Hospital, Jamaica Plain...
Late and safe is often the Pulitzer way. William Faulkner got his Nobel six years before his Pulitzer...
...mockepic saga of growing up wacky during the '50s and '60s hummed down the groove of black humor but spun with Southern English. Hannah revealed an ear for the palaver that still goes on around Confederate monuments, as well as for the eloquent cadences of Faulkner and Joyce...
...their worst, such things are pitched slightly comic and askew. Hannah's voice becomes distinctive as the stories proceed, a rolling mixture of roadhouse macho and ginmill sentimentality, marvelously suited for both shenanigans and self-parody Most young souther writers resent being compared to such past giants as Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor. In embracing the gothic mode. Hannah, 35, has planted himself firmly on their turf. On the evidence of Airships, their shadows are not stunting his growth. - Paul Gray