Welcome to Litsy!

This is both a sick work and a striking set of cultural contrasts. Faulkner, back in regular prose, has his town college graduates show off to drunken rum runners with loaded guns and opaque complex minds. It‘s weird and creepy in an interesting way. But like that movie, the story of Temple Drake is most memorable, but not in a good way. And it‘s really disturbing that Faulkner wrote it as he did. Some kind of trigger warning applies.

My next book

Sanctuary is kind of like if Faulkner and John Grisham got together to write about some horrific events ending in a trial in a small southern town. Don't hang out with moonshiners, kids.

The first page

My happy place.

This is my first Faulkner. I just started it. I bought it because it was the cheapest. I'm hoping it's good. Has anyone read it? Thoughts?

Faulkner House Books! Cozy little bookstore in the heart of the French Quarter and former home of William Faulkner 📚 #NOLA

This one is rough. I loved As I Lay Dying, The Town books, The Sound and the Fury, and others, but this one is not gripping me with the language for some reason. I have about a third of it left though.

#TBT to the summer of 2014, when I had the honor of going to the Faulkner Conference in Oxford, MS. This photo is on the upper porch of Square Books, one of the most relaxing places I've visited. And it shows off a few of my many journals. (More to come...) #throwbackthursday

Disturbing but strangely beautiful, and in places equal parts insightful and hilarious. Faulkner has a remarkable knack for capturing people and places and knowing just how to baffle a reader without putting them off completely.

I am sick. I am too old for this. I was born too old for it, and so I am sick to death for quiet.

This funeral scene is the funniest thing I've read in years.

Say what you want to, but there‘s a corruption about even looking upon evil, even by accident; you cannot haggle, traffic, with putrefaction.