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...cover story on William Faulkner [July 17] is a beautiful job-the clearest, fairest, most concise explanation of Faulkner's philosophy and purpose in life that I have ever read. We were proud here at Random House to be his publisher, and I personally considered his friendship a compliment beyond measure. Incidentally, every one of Faulkner's books is now either back in print-for good-or in the course of production...
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Boston is an old city, and its streets are random by-ways first trod by Pilgrims' feet. They are narrow, crooked, totally unpredictable. And they often feed into insidious death-traps known as "squares...
...real was the world of Yoknapatawpha to Faulkner that he sometimes gave the impression of living the life of his county almost day by day. During a bibulous all-afternoon lunch in New York with his last Random House editor, Albert Erskine, Faulkner might ask: "By the way, did you hear what happened to Sarty Snopes?" and then launch into anecdotes (some of them never published) just as if Erskine had lived in the same town but had not been back for a spell. Faulkner once remarked to a friend that Yoknapatawpha Lawyer Gavin Stevens " was a good...
...Nothing is ever at random in art," he said. "The persona begins with the name." And while he warned that "Wilson Knight is perhaps over-ingenious" in his derivations, he said that Arnold, who objected to Ruskin's remarks on Ophelia's name, "has no light to throw on Shakespeare and very little sweetness...