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Episode 135: William Faulkner
Every ten episodes, Trevor and Paul pause their usual reading discussions to spend time with a single author. This time: William Faulkner.
After recent journeys through As I Lay Dying, The Sound and the Fury, Light in August, and Absalom, Absalom!, they talk about what it feels like to read Faulkner: the challenge, the confusion, the beauty, the humor, the history, and the rewards. They also discuss Faulkner’s complicated engagement with race, the tension between the author’s work and his public life, and why readers continue returning to Yoknapatawpha County nearly a century later.
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