So, when I satirize, or say dark things about the city in my novel, know that it comes from an abiding devotion to a place I call home. These pictures are not from my home. This place was designed by Rudolph Schindler and opened to the public this past Sunday…
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William Faulkner’s Little-Known Jazz Age Drawings, with a Side of Literary Derision | Brain Pickings
Have you read Maria Popova’s always intriguing “Brain Pickings”? Beautifully written and researched pieces…an eclectic and fascinating collection of essays, often slyly funny… In 1916, as he was about to turn twenty, Faulkner began contributing poems and sketches to the Mississippian, the literary magazine at Ole Miss — the University…
“I name my wife: Gala, Galushka, Gradiva; Oliva, for the oval shape of her face and the colour of her skin; Oliveta, diminutive for Olive; and its delirious derivatives Oliueta, Oriueta, Buribeta, Buriueteta, Suliueta, Solibubuleta, Oliburibuleta, Ciueta, Liueta. I also call her Lionette, because when she gets angry she roars…
But there’s this one thing I wanted to say… I’m so ashamed of myself… When Jack quoted something, it was usually classical… no, don’t protect me now… I kept saying to Bobby, I’ve got to talk to somebody, I’ve got to see somebody, I want to say this one thing,…
It’s all in the eye of the beholder: I find this illustration both somber and vital, and I wanted to post something that reminded me of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis. Let the skeptics snort about Camelot, but there was something during the Kennedy years that was magic. Jackie was more…