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DOLLAR COTTON-John Faulkner-Harcourt, Brace...
...William Faulkner's younger brother" is not likely to be called that much longer. Forty-year-old John Faulkner has quite a South of his own, and his own way of telling about it. He knows how to give social history the easy clarity of a good comic strip, the human resonance of a good novel. His first book, Men Working (TIME, Aug. 11, 1941), was a tragicomedy about poor white farmers, brought to town and stranded there by WPA. Dollar Cotton is the life story of a Cotton King, Otis Town...
...decades the tough, subtle, sub-sinister landscape of the South has been a notable breeding and hunting ground for new writers. The hunting is still good. Neither Robert Richards, with a first novel, nor Brainard Cheney, with his second, is as imposing as Thomas Wolfe or William Faulkner. But both are exciting...
...Faulkner is perhaps the most gifted of living U.S. writers. He can be as funny as Mark Twain, as exalted as Melville, as solid as Joyce and as dull as Dreiser; but he has never done a book which has the sure, sound permanence of any of these men. Go Down, Moses, like most of Faulkner, is brilliant and uneven. Its special value is its evocative (though local) exploration of the U.S. national source and dawn. In it is a sometimes merely yeasty, sometimes 100-proof sense of those powers and mysteries of land and the people on it which...
...monuments in California and the Southwest. But the frontier simplicity of the Spanish missions stands in almost the same relation to the glories of Latin-American architecture as the stockade fort to the refined colonial of New England and the South. A comprehensive exhibition arranged by Architectural Historian Talbot Faulkner Hamlin, of Latin America's rich architectural tradition was running last week in the Avery Architectural Library at Columbia University. Some 200 photographs and reproductions of drawings, arranged in showcases and neatly labeled, outlined the development of architecture south of the Rio Grande, from its massive stone beginnings...