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...only a touch less than its usual technical excellence. Marvin Barertt's lead story, "Home Life," is a particularly skillful sketch of a degenerate family, and its distilled essence of moral and physical decay, engenedered, by apparently objective description of voluptuous decadence, savors strongly of the works of William Faulkner. Unfortunately, however, the author has little of Faulkner's control or understanding of the literary dynamite with which he is playing, and the result is the technically polished yet emotionally impotent quality which characterizes so much of the Advocate's imitative "modern" material...
...seemed likely that few would ever ripen to replace those whom the year killed. Still, there were some good ones. I. J. Kapstein's Something of a Hero ($2.75) was an honest, compassionate image of a U.S. city and of the obligations and shortcomings of U.S. democracy. William Faulkner's younger brother John, in Men Working ($2.50), showed neither influence nor need of any. River Rat ($2.50), by Daniel Lundberg, showed a fresh comic talent; Felice Swados, in House of Fury ($2), showed remarkable sure-footedness with new and difficult material: adolescent emotions in a girls' reform...
...Mississippi at Oxford. In 1931 he took up flying, got a job plane-dusting boll weevils in the Delta. One night he crashed his plane and his job in Georgia. He came back to manage his brother's plantation near Oxford, where he "raised niggers and mules." John Faulkner admits he is still not much of a farmer, says "it would take a man a lifetime to learn how to plough a straight furrow...
...Faulkner went to WPA as a "project engineer" in 1939, finished Men Working while laying sidewalks and digging sewers. He also finished another novel, Dollar Cotton, now with his publishers. The WPA is the best place in the world, he says, to write a book. But, he adds, if he can make $150 a month writing (he is sure he can), he will never do any kind of work again in his life...
Some weeks ago John Faulkner wrote his publishers that he had lost his WPA job, needed some money. "You have nothing to worry about," they replied, "you would have been fired anyway with publication of this book...