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...made writers I know admit two things: how much they really love writing and what they owe Hemingway. I laugh when I hear one more guy say he owes everything to Ezra Pound." McGuane reveres genius. He winces when recalling that a friend told him that Faulkner had bad taste in furniture...
...Michigan, where his father manufactures auto parts, McGuane cannot remember a time when he did not want to write. At ten he collaborated on a novel with the boy next door until they got into a fistfight over the description of a sunset. Now his favorite writers include Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Steinbeck ("Someone else no one will admit was any good") plus Turgenev, Chekhov and Knut Hamsun. The depth of McGuane's reading can be seen in the sophistication of his prose. "I have been sloppy in my approach to being an artist," he says, "but one thing I will...
...house was a gutted ruin rising gaunt and stark out of a grove of unpruned cedar trees," wrote William Faulkner about the Old Frenchman place in his 1931 novel Sanctuary. He might well have been thinking of Rowan Oak, the 1840 mansion he bought in 1930 in Oxford, Miss. Last week the University of Mississippi purchased the refurbished mansion from Faulkner's only daughter for part of a new cultural center. The study wall, with its manuscript chapter outlines of a Faulkner novel, is already a tourist attraction...
...results of the complicated proportional voting trickled in, it became apparent at week's end that ex-Prime Minister Brian Faulkner's Unionist Party had won about one-third of the 78 seats in the new Assembly. The Loyalists, composed of Protestant hardliners, and the Catholic Social, Democratic and Labor Party (S.D.L.P.) formed the second largest blocs, while the nonsectarian Alliance Party finished a distant and disappointing fourth...
...Loyalists-led by the Rev. Ian Paisley and former Home Affairs Minister William Craig-refuse to share any significant political power with Northern Ireland's 500,000 Catholics, who make up one-third of the population. Brian Faulkner, on the other hand, has pledged that his Unionists would be willing to work with some Catholics. A coalition of his party with the S.D.L.P. and the Alliance would have strength enough to control the committees that will rule on many day-today matters for the province...