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Anita Loos receives notes from William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

July 12, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Anita Loos worked for a very long time in the film industry, had an unfailingly cheerful disposition, and knew a whole hell of a lot of people. She wrote several books, including “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes,” and a few memoirs, from which we cull the following: A fan letter from William Faulkner, after he read “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes:” I have just read the Blonde book, Bill’s copy. So I galloped out and got myself one. Please accept my envious congratulations on […]

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“Can working for the movies hurt your own writing?” Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 12, William Faulkner

June 19, 2015 by Vickie Lester

INTERVIEWER Can working for the movies hurt your own writing? FAULKNER Nothing can injure a man’s writing if he’s a first-rate writer. If a man is not a first-rate writer, there’s not anything can help it much. The problem does not apply if he is not first rate because he has already sold his soul for a swimming pool. INTERVIEWER Does a writer compromise in writing for the movies? FAULKNER Always, because a moving picture is by its nature a […]

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I was a little rude about one of the great American authors last week…

April 28, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Here are the words of Mr. Bennett Cerf, a great publisher, a great wit, and apparently a great guy. May he smooth any heavenly feathers I ruffled in regards to William Faulkner. William Faulkner had a firm belief that the author writes the book and the publisher publishes it. He would bring in a manuscript, and I’d say, “Bill, do you have any ideas about the book jacket and the advertising?” Bill would say, “Bennett, that’s your job. If I […]

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“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.” William Faulkner

April 16, 2014 by Vickie Lester

I suppose everyone is entitled to their opinion. What Hollywood looked like when Mr. Faulkner deigned to spend time here… This is the corner of Highland and Hollywood Blvd. The building is still there. This is Hollywood Blvd. Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is at the bottom of the frame. He may have stopped at Sardi’s, designed by Richard Neutra for a drink… Or picked up some paper for his typewriter here, at the stationer’s store… And perhaps feeling a little worse […]

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William Faulkner’s Little-Known Jazz Age Drawings, with a Side of Literary Derision | Brain Pickings

April 16, 2014 by Vickie Lester

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 of Mississippi, in which he would enroll three years later for a brief three-semester stint before dropping out in 1920. But Faulkner continued to draw for the magazine until 1925 […]

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Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)

April 16, 2014 by Vickie Lester

The day after Christmas, early 1930s: William Faulkner (yes, he was married and significantly older) pictured with Meta Carpenter Wilde (secretary to Howard Hawks and later a Script Supervisor). Meta Carpenter Wilde wrote a book in 1976 about her eighteen year relationship – “A Loving Gentleman” – with the storied author. A very interesting look at Hollywood’s golden era from an insider’s perspective. “My latter day wonder at the honors paid to Hawks was as nothing compared to my shock […]

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A Trove of Faulkner Film Scripts – New York Times

April 16, 2014 by Vickie Lester

”There are misconceptions about Faulkner as a screenwriter,” Mr. Brodsky said. ”Actually, he worked very hard on the scripts. What he didn’t like was that the films were never made. The old joke – that he asked the studio if he could write at home, that they thought he meant somewhere in Los Angeles, and instead he went home to Mississippi – is not exactly right. On and off, he spent months at a time in Hollywood.” Got Credit for […]

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Tag: William Faulkner

Anita Loos receives notes from William Faulkner, Aldous Huxley, and F. Scott Fitzgerald

“Can working for the movies hurt your own writing?” Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 12, William Faulkner

I was a little rude about one of the great American authors last week…

“Everything in Los Angeles is too large, too loud and usually banal in concept… The plastic asshole of the world.” William Faulkner

William Faulkner’s Little-Known Jazz Age Drawings, with a Side of Literary Derision | Brain Pickings

Writers in Hollywood, Faulkner, Huxley, Odets…and Grandma (a repost from 2012)

A Trove of Faulkner Film Scripts – New York Times