Word: fictionalization
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Corn Likker Breakfast. As it turned out, Faulkner and the students had plenty to say to each other. He had no formal teaching schedule, instead appeared before most of the university's graduate and undergraduate classes in English to read his labyrinthian fiction in a soft, gentle voice slurred slightly by a Mississippi accent. Then he politely answered questions about such matters as the murky origins of his stories. He told of drinking corn likker for breakfast with "those unhuman people who live between the Mississippi and the levee." He once frankly admitted that his writing methods were often...
...garden behind the sprawling ten-room house in Swansea, Wales, where he lives with his blonde wife Hilary and two sons and a daughter, all three under ten. He is a lecturer in English at the University College of Swansea, dislikes London literary society, likes jazz, Guinness stout, science fiction, cricket and Rugby matches, and making faces like Lucky Jim at parties...
...joke in Punch, and U.S. editions of Lucky Jim and a second novel. That Uncertain Feeling, have barely topped the 5,000 mark in sales. His fellow writers would probably fare even worse, for they write with a sloppy, cliche-ridden arrogance that has been absent from serious U.S. fiction since the heyday of James T. Farrell and the cult of social protest...
...aristocracy, without its responsibilities. They have a fierce as well as a flabby honesty. It can be said of each of them, as one critic said of Lucky Jim: "He has one skin too few. but his is not the sensitiveness of the young man in earlier twentieth century fiction: it is the phony to which his nerve ends are tremblingly exposed, and at the least suspicion of the phony he goes tough...
Appearing first in Astounding Science Fiction in 1946 as "Meihem In Ce Klasrum" by Dolton Edwards and later in condensed form in Reader's Digest, the manuscript was recently (March 5) acquired for reprinting in Science World...