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Where Faulkner Found His People

February 11, 2010 By PATRICIA COHEN The climactic moment in William Faulkner's 1942 novel ''Go Down, Moses'' comes when Isaac McCaslin finally decides to open his grandfather's leather farm ledgers with their ''scarred and cracked backs'' and ''yellowed pages scrawled in fading ink'' -- proof of his family's slave-owning past. Now, what appears to be the document on which Faulkner... Full article »

NEW ALBANY JOURNAL; A Ballot Result in Mississippi That Faulkner Could Drink To

February 7, 2010 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON There was a vote here last month. It was hard-fought, with dueling newspaper advertisements and yard signs, tableside debates in restaurants, a prayer rally and a fusillade of last-minute phone calls. But only one side could win, and the victory was a historic one: in a couple of months, a person will be able to buy a beer legally here in William... Full article »

HAVENS | OXFORD, MISS.; A College Town Where the Streets are Paved in Magnolia

July 4, 2008 By STEVE BAILEY IT has been nearly 50 years since William Faulkner walked the streets of Oxford, Miss., a gentrified college town that he would hardly recognize today. But he remains so strong a presence that his weighty prose still informs daily life. The slamming of screen doors in summer, the crowd around a traffic accident in Courthouse Square and the smell of... Full article »

THE NATION; Summer And Smoke, An American Cauldron

June 29, 2008 By SAM TANENHAUS The Fourth of July is approaching and with it the promise, or threat, of another long, hot summer. It serves as a reminder, as if there were any danger of forgetting, that of all the seasons, summer can be the cruelest. Winter's punishments fall with blunt directness: short days, frigid nights, the blizzard that brings our activities to a halt.... Full article »

THEATER REVIEW | 'THE SOUND AND THE FURY'; Faulkner's Haunted Family, Moving In and Out of Time

April 30, 2008 By BEN BRANTLEY For the record, Elevator Repair Service's ''Sound and the Fury (April Seventh, 1928)'' lasts over two and a half hours, counting intermission. Or that's what my watch said at the end of this hypnotic re-creation of the opening section of William Faulkner's 1929 novel. But I really had no idea of how long I had been sitting in a state of rapt, oddly... Full article »

They Did 'Gatsby.' But Can They Handle Faulkner?

April 27, 2008 By JUSTIN BERGMAN JOHN COLLINS approaches a play much like a scientist trying to prove a difficult theory. He starts with an untested idea and brainstorms ways to make it work on the stage. Many hypothetical solutions are posed, proved not to work and rejected. Often he finds himself back at Square 1 at the end of a day. The process is deliberate and frustrating,... Full article »

ARTS, BRIEFLY COMPILED BY LAWRENCE VAN GELDER | WHEN FAULKNER TOOKTHE SORORITY PLEDGE; When Faulkner Took The Sorority Pledge

August 3, 2007 Southeast Missouri State University has a new addition to its Center for Faulkner Studies. It is ''Sorority,'' a six-paragraph, one-page manuscript handwritten by William Faulkner in 1933 as a favor for a friend of his stepdaughter's at a Mississippi junior college, The Associated Press reported. On a visit to Faulkner's home in Oxford, Miss., the... Full article »

Arts, Briefly; Baryshnikov Will Star In Beckett Plays

March 9, 2007 By CAMPBELL ROBERTSON; Compiled by Lawrence Van Gelder Mikhail Baryshnikov will star in an evening of four one-act plays by Samuel Beckett in the 2007-8 season of the New York Theater Workshop. Besides the Beckett evening, to be directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, highlights of the season include a stage adaptation of William Faulkner's ''Sound and the Fury'' by the experimental theater group Elevator Repair... Full article »

Your Inner Modernist

March 26, 2006 By RON POWERS RECOVERING YOUR STORY Proust, Joyce, Woolf, Faulkner, Morrison. By Arnold Weinstein. 496 pp. Random House. $26.95. Ouch. Arnold Weinstein has asked for it with that title. This is a perfectly respectable book that undertakes to examine and celebrate five of the most cognitively demanding exemplars of modernist literature -- and he goes and hangs a... Full article »

Reviving His Works, On Paper and Plaster

July 14, 2005 By PAIGE WILLIAMS WILLIAM FAULKNER wrote most of his novels while living at Rowan Oak, a two-story Greek Revival home at the end of an allée of antebellum red cedars here. The place was barely fit for chickens when he bought it in 1930, for $6,000, and so for the next three decades, Faulkner repaired, expanded and tweaked the house and grounds to his quirky,... Full article »

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