The Life of William Faulkner with Carl Rollyson

[@meogamingtr]

Having already read and made use of his great statements on Faulkner's life in my dissertation, I am deeply honored to hear Mr. Rollyson live. This is a lifetime oppurtunity. Thanks for providing this literary gem 🥰 best regards to such a legend.

[@gnosis6656]

Rollyson is so on-target in highlighting Faulkner’s profound reflection on race, as exemplified by Charles Bon in A,A! (and by Joe Christmas and by Ike McCaslin and by Clytie, and by …, etc.)

[@jackiefialkowski2892]

My great pleasure would be to visit the athenaeum. When will this amazing, historic site reopen. I am excited to see everything.

[@joseyzadoria7815]

My two favorite authors Hemingway and Faulkner. However, I would put Poe, Twain, Salinger, Steinbeck right up there as well.

[@shaunpurcell8300]

Watch at 1.5x

[@a1k131]

Great interview. I'm reading his "Collected Stories". After these, I'd like to read his other works in sequence of their emergence. Should I start from the latest or first ?

[@greggoat6570]

As a Faulkner reader currently going through by publishing order, it is a fun way to approach his work. Flags in the Dust is an under appreciated gem that introduces Faulkner’s south. Light on plot but very atmospheric, poetic, and even cinematic at times in its imagery.

[@peterrebhahn1113]

As I understand it, Faulkner's time in Hollywood was unsatisfying and not very successful. Hemingway, who made suitcases of money selling movie rights to his work, once said or wrote that writers should be happy to take Hollywood's money for movie rights but should otherwise avoid it like the plague. I suspect Hem was onto something there. Of course, that was in a different time. If Shakespeare were alive today he would likely be writing for Hollywood.