body", "role":"body","text":"William Faulkner, born on this day in 1897 in New Albany,
Miss., won two Pulitzers and the Nobel Prize. His Southern-rooted fiction,
heartbreaking, dark and perverse, is often remarked on for its long, winding sentences.
His work appears in almost any listing of best American novels.
","type":"text"}, {"additions":[{"URL":"http://thepassingtramp.blogspot.com/2017/05/wort
h-fifty-years-of-late-fees-tale-
of.html","range":{"length":26,"start":53},"type":"link"}],"identifier":"anf-body-
49","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":170,"start":0},"textStyle":"
anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":170,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-10"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"What’s less well known about Faulkner is that he was a
devoted fan of mysteries â€" Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Dorothy Sayers â€" and
tried his own hand at the
genre.","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"http://www.elleryqueenmysterymagazine.com/
","range":{"length":29,"start":42},"type":"link"}],"identifier":"anf-body-
50","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":161,"start":0},"textStyle":"
anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":161,"start":0},"textstyle":" anf-ts-10"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"In 1946 he won second prize in the annual Ellery Queen
Mystery Magazine contest, for the story “An Error in Chemistry†(its big reveal
involved a whiskey
toddy).","type":"text"}, {"additions":[{"URL":"https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/
48396/knights-gambit-by-william-
faulkner/9780307946799/","range":{"length":15,"start":29},"type":"link"},{"URL":"https:
//timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/11/06/84228885.pdf?partner=applenews&ad-
keywords=APPLEMOBILE®ion=written through&asset id=100000006123279","range":{"length"
:30,"start":176},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body-
51","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":206,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":206,"start":0},"textstyle":" anf-ts-10"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"The story later appeared in “Knight’s Gambit,†a
mystery collection from Faulkner featuring a mild-mannered yet shrewd country lawyer
from Mississippi. Reviews were mixed, but The Times gave it a thumbs
up.","type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body-
52","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":140,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":140,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-10"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"Faulkner rarely discussed his love of mysteries, perhaps
considering them lowbrow, but seemed to understand their importance to his
writing.","type":"text"}, {"additions":[{"URL":"https://docplayer.net/52832758-
Reflections-on-william-faulkner-an-interview-with-albert-i-
bezzerides.html","range":{"length":17,"start":0},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-
body-53","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":264,"start":0},"textstyle":" anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":264,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-10"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"A friend recalled visiting a library with him, so Faulkner
could “exchange a stack of mystery stories for a new stack. I asked him, ‘Why do
you read all of these damn mysteries?’ and he said, ‘Bud, no matter what you write,
it’s a mystery of one kind or another.’â€","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body-
54","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":38,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":38,"start":0},"textStyle":"anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":38,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body", "text":"Nancy Wartik wrote today’s Back
Story.","type":"text"},{"identifier":" anf-body-
55","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":5,"start":0},"textstyle":"anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":5,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":5,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"","type":"text"},{"identifier":"_anf-body-
56","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":61,"start":0},"textstyle":" anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":61,"start":0},"textStyle":" _anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":61,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-1"}],"layout":"default-
body", "role":"body","text":"Featured Crikey articles are paywall free for Times
readers.
","type":"text"},{"additions":[{"URL":"https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/briefin
g/global-morning-briefing-newsletter-signup.html?partner=applenews&ad-
keywords=APPLEMOBILE®ion=written_through&asset_id=100000006123279","range":{"length"
:12,"start":72},"type":"link"},{"URL":"https://www.nytimes.com/newsletters/evening-
briefing?partner=applenews&ad-
keywords=APPLEMOBILE®ion=written_through&asset_id=100000006123279","range":{"length"
:19,"start":181},"type":"link"}],"identifier":" anf-body-
57","inlineTextStyles":[{"range":{"length":221,"start":0},"textStyle":"_anf-ts-
10"},{"range":{"length":221,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts-
HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028462
Discussion 0
No comments yet
Be the first to share your thoughts on this epstein document