[go: up one dir, main page]
On the Fever Dream Brilliance of Harry Crews

On the Fever Dream Brilliance of Harry Crews

Kevin Wilson Considers What It Means to Be a Southern Writer

By Kevin Wilson | March 21, 2022

Watch Tony Kushner perform William Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech.

Watch Tony Kushner perform William Faulkner’s Nobel acceptance speech.

By Walker Caplan | November 8, 2021

Absalom, Absalom!?">How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s <emAbsalom, Absalom!?">

Absalom, Absalom!?">How Much Did the History of American Chattel Slavery Shape William Faulkner’s Absalom, Absalom!?

W. Ralph Eubanks on the Connection Between Faulkner’s Fiction, His Longtime Home, and the University of Mississippi

By W. Ralph Eubanks | July 29, 2021

You should be listening to John Murry, the moody musician who just happens to be Faulkner's cousin.

You should be listening to John Murry, the moody musician who just happens to be Faulkner's cousin.

By Emily Temple | June 22, 2021

A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

A Witness to the Human Experience: Why Medicine Needs Storytellers

David Weill, MD, on the Journey from Medicine to Writing

By David Weill, MD | May 20, 2021

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

About all those unproduced screenplays William Faulkner wrote . . .

By Walker Caplan | May 10, 2021

Best Reviewed
Books of the Week

  • Joyride: A Memoir
  • A Guardian and a Thief
  • Minor Black Figures
  • True Nature: The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen
  • The Wayfinder
  • Unabridged: The Thrill of (and Threat To) the Modern Dictionary

Ten Savage Insults From Literary Icons

By Literary Hub | March 31, 2021

Michael Bible on Writing the Sort of Character Who Would’ve Stormed the Capitol

By Otherppl with Brad Listi | February 3, 2021

Life, Love, and Beowulf in the Deep South's Most Literary Small Town

By Lawrence Wells | September 22, 2020

Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

Down Through the Faulkner Bloodline, Pride and Racial Guilt Commingled

Michael Gorra on William Faulkner's Great-Grandfather

By Michael Gorra | August 24, 2020

Why Didn't

Why Didn't "Brazil's William Faulkner" Achieve the Same International Fame?

Padma Viswanathan on Graciliano Ramos

By Padma Viswanathan | June 3, 2020

Vladimir Nabokov on the

Vladimir Nabokov on the "great books" of the 20th century and other detestable things.

By Emily Temple | April 22, 2020

Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

Young William Faulkner in the French Quarter

The Creolization of Faulkner's Writing

By Carl Rollyson | March 24, 2020

Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

Uncovering the Hidden Love Lives of Sylvia Plath and William Faulkner

Carl Rollyson on Researching For His Two New Biographies

By Carl Rollyson | March 23, 2020

Okay, now the LAST lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing.

Okay, now the LAST lines of 10 classic novels, rewritten for social distancing.

By Jessie Gaynor | March 19, 2020

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy, True Heir to Melville and Faulkner

On Violence, the Sublime, and Blood Meridian's Place in the American Canon

By Harold Bloom | October 16, 2019

Page 2 of 5

  • Literary Hub

    Created by Grove Atlantic and Electric Literature


    Masthead

    About

    Sign Up For Our Newsletters

    How to Pitch Lit Hub

    Advertisers: Contact Us

    Privacy Policy

    Support Lit Hub - Become A Member