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Next Thursday "Faulkner: The Vision of Human Integrity" will be discussed by Alfred Kazin. In the final talk, on Thursday, February 22, Professor Lionel Trilling of Columbia will analyze "William Dean Howells and the Roots of Taste...
...withering, the Fitzgerald legend is livelier today than at any time since its hero's death. Unlike many literary "revivals," the interest in his books is real, not the byproduct of a publisher's promotion. At literary shindigs nowadays the Fitzgerald worshipers generally outnumber the Hemingway and Faulkner fans. Budd Schulberg's The Disenchanted, largely a fictional pry into Fitzgerald's private life, has sold more than 250,000 copies...
...cheer for having tried, at least, to write about his Dons and Shelleys, people who are at least as representative of current U.S. life as anybody else, and currently least represented in U.S. fiction. The Beacon Hill set has Marquand, the Chicago slums have Farrell, the Mississippi farmers have Faulkner and the Okies have, or used to have, Steinbeck. In faithful seriousness or satiric affection, lower-income suburbia deserves a look...
Before he flew to Stockholm to pick up his Nobel Prize money, Novelist William (Intruder in the Dust) Faulkner, a qualified authority on the seamy side of life, was cornered by Manhattan reporters who asked him what he considered the most decadent aspect of American life. Answered Faulkner: "It's this running people down and getting interviews and pictures of them just because something's happened to them." For the presentation in Stockholm, Faulkner made his first appearance before a microphone and TV cameras, wore white tie & tails for the first time, met fellow Prizewinner Bertrand Russell...
Among U.S. top-division writers, Mississippi's William Faulkner had the best year. Over the protests of at least one Mississippi editor, the Jackson Daily News's Frederick Sullens, who still insisted that Faulkner belongs to the "garbage-can school," he was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize for literature. His Collected Stories, a Book-of-the-Month Club alternate selection, demonstrated again that, at the top of his form, Faulkner is one of the very best U.S. writers of his generation...