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...As part of plans to help communities the government considers “left behind”, Darlington in County Durham is to become a new hub for Whitehall departments, including 750 officials from the Treasury, business...
...Like that of The Known World, and like Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, Gordon’s fictional and deeply Southern Gothic landscape of vast plantations limned by alligator-infested swamps, of “Red Indian”-haunted...
...Not for nothing does McLemore hand Reed a copy of William Faulkner’s 1930 short story “A Rose for Emily”, about death and isolation in the Deep South....
...Taking his cues from Hemingway, Frost and Faulkner, Rash offers an impressionistic rendering of our inability to articulate pain and our tendency to look without seeing....
...We walk through town, past the county courthouse, and head to Square Books, an independent bookstore owned by one of his closest friends. Inside, it is a relaxed and inviting atmosphere....
...She was the greatest living writer in the south and provided a link back to the world of Faulkner. She also understood and made photographs....
...There’s a whole lot of them: Charlie Higgins, Joyce, Heaney, Angela Carter, William Faulkner, Roddy Doyle – a great mate of mine – and Borges....
...In Ireland – he lives in a remote part of County Leitrim, his nearest neighbour a mile away – they cut him some slack, though not, he hastens to add, for that particular misdemeanour....
...William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying was a significant early discovery: Carey was struck by its use of multiple narrative viewpoints and short, intensely written chapters....
...After Brian Faulkner’s short-lived Sunningdale power- sharing experiment collapsed in 1974, the unionist community began taking heed of the “Big Man” from Ballymena....
...Not since William Faulkner dreamt up Yoknapatawpha County and Saul Bellow reinvented Chicago in print has an American author charted a patch of turf with Auster’s determination....
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