As I Lay Dying is one of those insane novels that is absolutely essential for anyone who was wondering why William Faulkner is still the man. Vardaman’s exclamation “My mother is a fish” is traced so deeply into the hard drive of my imagination that it was wild to see Julie Ruane’s post about names [...]
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I’ve been burning through books during my vacation, which I’m finding a welcome alternative when I kinda unplug—although I’m not really unplugged, just kinda—and I am in the middle of Nikolai Gogol’s Dead Souls which is absolutely hysterical.
The biographical details behind the writing of the book is insane, and I recommend you click the [...]
Flannery O’Connor on Southern literature and the grostesque
Published by July 15th, 2009 in audio and literature. 9 CommentsI started watching John Huston’s adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s Wise Blood (1979) for the first time, and I actually stopped half-way through. And while I am a huge fan of Harry Dean Stanton, and I dug Brad Dourif in this role, I felt the film really sucked the life out of the literature—and it may [...]
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