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...Reed Nancy Parker, LowellEugene J. Reilly Helen Keyes, HullJohn C. Robbins, Jr. Hephizibah McWeebles, Dunkling-in-CharlesPaul C. Rodgers Jr. Elizabeth McCarthy, Syracuse, N. Y.Melvin H. Rodman Phyllis Ourieff, BrooklineRochester H. Rogers Jr. Margery Williams, WorcesterJoseph Romano Catherine Pindo, BrooklynWilliam L. Roney Virginia Reed, Long IslandWalter N. Rothschild Polly Faulkner, CambridgeWilbur H. Sawyer Lois Greaser, Haddenfield, N. J.Francis X. Scannell Margaret McLaughlin, RoslindalePaul J. R. Schlessinger Anne Singer, CambridgeHeinzdieter von Schoenermarck Dorothy Rick, BrooklineMarvin J. Shapiro Sylvia Shugarman, CambridgePhilip P. Sharples Georgiana Pratt, Chestnut HillLawrence K. Shaul Groen Tucker, Scranton, Pa.Harvey P. Sleeper Margaret Bassett, Rockville Center, L. I.Lawrence...
...years, ago, in Milan, Italy, a new weekly magazine called Omnibus appeared. Skillfully edited by Leo Longanesi, 33-year-old Fascist journalist, it printed political articles, photographs of pretty women and, as its specialty, the fiction of such little-known foreigners as Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner, Erskine Caldwell. Italy's best magazine, Omnibus quickly became its most popular as well, with readers clamoring for more & more contemporary U.S. authors...
...summer of 1929, Faulkner was back in Oxford, and his financial situation was getting desperate. He had written a brilliant, bitter, difficult book, The Sound and the Fury, which Publisher Harrison Smith assured him would not sell. He had married Mrs. Estelle Oldham Franklin, an Oxford girl who had two children by a previous marriage. To make money he wrote a horror story, Sanctuary. It was rejected, too. He got a job shoveling coal at the Oxford power plant for $100 a month, working from 6 p. m. to 6 a. m. From midnight until 4 a. m. he wrote...
Ghost Town. Jefferson is saturated with the memory of old feuds and old sins. In eight of his books Faulkner has traced its history through the stories of its once-great families whose descendants still hold on, whose legends still remain. Violent, formless, the books are packed with scenes of murder, suicide, insanity, horror, give as unsparing a picture of social decay as any U. S. novelist has drawn...
Southern decay in Faulkner's novels is no more romantic than decayed teeth. In the broadest terms, his picture of Jefferson's social history is this: Jefferson's men & women of the Civil War generation were strongwilled, ambitious, quixotic, ruined not so much by the War as by their own feudal code; their sons tended to linger long over the achievements of their ancestors as wealth and position slipped away; members of the third generation turned savagely on their parents when they found that the traditions they inherited did not square with the bitter actualities of life...