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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-…
Carl Rollyson retweeted
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…
Wonderful to visit. My writing about Johnson is included here: amazon.com/Higher-Form-Canni…
Carl Rollyson retweeted
Seeing her films with Ronald Colman changed my view of him. Why, Colman was really a comedian in dramatic disguise! @crollyson @DADiClementi @SugarpussOShea1
Frederick L. Horde, president of Purdue U, flies to Hollywood with an award for “giving the American people, honest realistic stories of American college life.” (Tulsa World, 10/22/50). Listeners wrote into the show asking for information about campus activities.
Malcolm Cowley arrives at the Algonquin, observes the whiskey and beer bottles on the dresser, and the writer on his back “naked and uncovered except for a silk pajama top.” upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…
October 22 1959: Dreams of her father “come to life again” and a confusing scene in which her son is a twin to her mother’s son who is an uncle the same age as his nephew, her brother the same age as her child. “O the tangles of that old bed.”upress.state.ms.us/Books/S/S…
My review of two new Lincoln books: nysun.com/article/finding-th…
10/21/1909: Lafayette County Fair: a flying machine powered by a sooty coal oil fire the blackens spectators as it ascends over Oxford and crashes onto the Faulkner chicken house as a grimy Billy, and brothers Jack and Johnny ride in on their ponies. upress.state.ms.us/Books/W/W…