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...UNVANQUISHED-William Faulkner -Random House...
...popularity-books by and about grandmothers and grandfathers, memoirs of farm childhoods. One of the most popular was Delia Thompson Lutes's The Country Kitchen, recalling the Michigan childhood of a sturdy, quick-eyed girl who grew up to edit women's magazines, write etiquette books, &detest Faulkner and the end of Anthony Adverse.& The American Booksellers Association voted it &the most original book of 1936.& Its originality was its oldtime local color, particularly in its vivid reminder of Mother's cooking on the farm. And it sold over 30,000 copies...
...Spain. To big audiences he talked with almost untranslatable rapidity and eloquence; to small groups of writers from Princeton to Hollywood he preached his favorite literary message: the value to literature of active political careers by its creators. Long an admirer of U. S. literature (he introduced William Faulkner to France, considers him the first U. S. novelist, likes Hemingway and the novels of Dashiell Hammett), he was amazed at the remoteness of U. S. writing men from world problems. In Hollywood he made three money-raising speeches, made a bigger impression on Hollywood's writing colony than...
...picture of Southern family relationships, The Fathers might well have furnished a plot for William Faulkner. But in a Faulkner novel the portrayal of decadence would have left no room for Tate's wavering conclusion. Between Novelists Tate and Faulkner the gulf is as wide as that which separated the Border States' champion compromiser, Henry Clay, and the Deep South's champion non-compromiser, Jeff Davis...
...changed from Teddy Stern to Teddy Shaw, the hero's from Chick Kessler to Chick Kirkland. Aaronson and Rappaport were Anglicized respectively as Armbruster and Beatty, and even "Itchy" Flexner, the buffoon of the piece, was, according to Author Kober, "forced to change his proud family name to Faulkner...