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“I've been having a lovely birthday week to console me for catapulting so swiftly towards thirty”—not to mention that line in “Tulips” about the “thirty-year-old cargo boat / Stubbornly hanging on to my name and address.” upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/T…
October 27, 1948: In Sherman, CT, Malcolm Cowley takes William Faulkner for a drive in the fall color. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
About “The Lost Silk Hat,” Allen Rich wrote in the North Hollywood, California Valley Times 10/27/52): The “fulfillment. of television drama at its peak, its very best.” youtu.be/rnk_-88Q9eA?si=xOW5…; amazon.com/Ronald-Colman-Hol…
October 27, 1957: To Lynne Lawner at Cambridge: “You are not unusual: you are, as you say, freezing, sick, and uncertain. Well, so was I.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…; more on that Cambridge cold: upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/T…
With Ted, another exhausting session at the Ouija Board talking with the dead. upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…
October 26, 1954: Contemplates an expansion of his lecture/essay on freedom “American style—the sort of misused freedom and liberty which produced the McCarthys and from which people like Oppenheimer suffer.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
October 25 1921: Mentions to his mother that in New Haven he has stopped traffic in a scene worthy of a Charlie Chaplin or Buster Keaton film. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
October 25, 1962: “I shall forge my writing out of these difficult experiences—to have known the bottom, whether mental or emotional is a great trial, but also a great gift.”
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10/24/39: Affirms opposition to Franco and the revolt against Republican Spain. Sends manuscript of Absalom, Absalom! to Vincent Sheean, League of American Writers, as contribution to the anti-fascist cause. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…; more on anti-fascism: momentmag.com/faulkner-the-a…
More about Capa: amazon.com/Beautiful-Exile-C…
She’s great in Fallen Angel and she didn’t seem to know it: amazon.com/Hollywood-Enigma-…
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Hermione Lee: Biography is a dying art prospectmagazine.co.uk/views…
I write about her here: amazon.com/American-Biograph…
Preminger is the key to this film: upress.state.ms.us/Books/H/H…
“I am so emotionally exhausted after this week, and the Hungarian and Suez affairs have depressed me terribly after reading the typed last words from Hungary yesterday before the Russians took over I was almost physically sick”—upress.state.ms.us/Books/T/T…
