William Faulkner

Review: Story rings false in 'Language of a Broken Heart'

2013-03-14 17:00:00

In "Language of a Broken Heart," we are asked to believe that romance novelist Nick (played by the film's screenwriter, Juddy Talt) knows how to write with authority about love without any firsthand knowledge of its real-life workings. It's a bit of a...

I wish I could meet ..., the literary edition

2013-02-19 11:34:00

A quick perusal of the popular hashtag #IWishICouldMeet on Twitter led to a couple of conclusions. First, more than anything, people want to meet Justin Bieber, although Jesus is a close second. And a lot of people would like to be able to be another...

Tying up the loose ends of 'the Troubles'

2013-02-04 00:00:00

The recent death of an Irish terrorist has raised the possibility of a resolution of a tangled legal controversy pitting the U.S. Department of Justice against a college that sponsored a research project about the "Troubles" in Northern Ireland. But it...

Now that's a wall of books

2013-01-23 10:08:00

Circle City Books in Pittsboro, N.C., has just completed an eye-catching mural: a side of a building covered in books. Huge, oversize books, with titles that even this myopic passerby could read. What's on it? Forty-eight titles, some of which are...

Ellen Douglas dies at 91; writer depicted racially conflicted South

2012-11-13 00:00:00

Ellen Douglas, a Mississippi native whose novels were widely praised for their portrayal of the racially conflicted South, died Wednesday in Jackson, Miss., after an extended illness. She was 91. Her death was confirmed by Steve Holland, a funeral...

Toni Morrison leads U.S. delegation at Festival America in France

2012-09-22 06:47:00

VINCENNES, France -- I am one of about five dozen invitees to the biennial Festival America book fair just outside Paris. Toni Morrison is the guest of honor at the event, which brings together authors from the Americas. Jennifer Egan is here too, along...

Book review: A vivid portrait of 'The Hunger Angel'

2012-06-03 00:00:00

The Hunger Angel A Novel Herta M�ller, translated from the German by Philip Boehm Metropolitan Books/Henry Holt: 292 pp., $26 Fortunately, the Nobel Prize committee for literature has gotten it right when it's recognized the courageous, sensual...

Pithy posters for writers

2012-07-11 16:35:42

'The Sound and the Fury' as William Faulkner imagined, in color

2012-07-05 16:35:34

88 books that shaped America, at the Library of Congress

2012-07-04 16:36:52

Tracking Wallace Stegner's footprints in Vermont's earth

2012-04-08 00:00:00

Wallace Stegner wrote books about the American and Canadian West, so it's understandable that people consider the longtime California resident a Western author. Stegner, a prolific novelist, essayist, conservation advocate and professor at Stanford...

Most interesting comment thread of the day, courtesy Helen DeWitt

2012-05-16 21:36:31

Allegedly clipped road worker in rush to make his haircut appointment Charge: Aggravated battery

2013-03-29 00:00:00

William Faulkner's portable typewriter. Faulkner didn't have an MFA, but he did have a Nobel Prize.

2012-11-12 17:56:20

The book: The Modern Library ranked "The Sound and the Fury" sixth on its list of the 100 best English-language novels of the 20th century. It was part of the body of work that got William Faulkner the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1949.

2012-10-24 19:14:08