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April 2001
"Faulkner and War"
The 2001 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and War,"
is now open for registration. A pop-up window should have opened to explain
more in brief about the conference; if no such window opened, click
here to try again. You may also check out this article by Donald Kartiganer,
conference director and Howry Professor of Faulkner Studies at the University of
Mississippi. To register, you may go to the official Faulkner
& Yoknapatawpha Conference
web site to print out a registration form. Registration fees increase after
July 2, so don't delay.
Licensing
of Rights For
anyone who wishes to license Faulkner works for a stage or screen adaptation, or
wishes to use Faulkner’s works for any other commercial endeavor, you should
direct your inquiries to Lee Caplin, who has been commissioned by the Faulkner
family to serve as the exclusive representative for the literary estate of
William Faulkner. Anyone seeking licensing rights for Faulkner’s works should
email Mr. Caplin at starium@pacbell.net.
Faulkner
Collectibles Online Seth
Berner, owner of Seth Berner Books in Maine and a perennial presence at Faulkner
& Yoknapatawpha conferences past, has announced he won't be able to attend
this year. He has, however, put his catalog of rare and hard-to-find Faulkner
materials online. Ranging from books to periodicals to Faulkner miscellany
(screenplays, movie posters, etc.), and even to Southern materials not directly
related to Faulkner, Berner's collection includes a diversity of items
that should interest collectors of Faulkner memorabilia. Browse through the
catalog at this location,
or email Berner at sberner@maine.rr.com.
August 2000
Call for Papers
The 2001 Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and War,"
has issued a call for papers. Deadline for
submissions is January 15, 2001. The conference will be held at the University
of Mississippi in Oxford from July 22-27, 2001. Click on the above link for
details.
The 2000 Faulkner Conference, "Faulkner in the 21st Century,"
has ended, but audio of some of the lectures may soon be available on the web
within the Center for the Study of Southern Culture web site. Once I have the
details, I will post them here.
Faux Faulkner Winners
The winners of this year's Faux Faulkner Contest have been announced.
Winning first prize is "Delta Drive-Thru" by Catherine Dupree of Los
Angeles, with runners-up "Verbose in Tertio" by Mitch Globe of
Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, and "William Faulkner Recites the Pledge of
Allegiance" by Allan Kolsky of Salt Lake City, Utah. The winning entries
appear in print in the July issue of Hemispheres
Magazine. For now, the winning entries, along with the winning entries
from the Imitation Hemingway Contest, can be read
online by clicking on "contests" at the magazines web site. The contest, now in its 11th year, is sponsored by Hemispheres
(United Airlines in-flight magazine), the University of Mississippi’s
Department of English and Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and
Yoknapatawpha Press/Faulkner Newsletter.
July 2000
The winners of this year's Faux Faulkner Contest have been announced.
Winning first prize is "Delta Drive-Thru" by Catherine Dupree of Los
Angeles, with runners-up "Verbose in Tertio" by Mitch Globe of
Steamboat
Springs, Colorado, and "William Faulkner Recites the Pledge of
Allegiance" by Allan Kolsky of Salt Lake City, Utah. The winning entries
appear in print in this month's Hemispheres Magazine. For now, the
winning entries, along with the winning entries from the Imitation Hemingway
Contest, can be read online at www.hemispheresmagazine.com/contest.html.
The contest, now in its 11th year, is sponsored by Hemispheres (United
Airlines in-flight magazine), the University of Mississippi’s
Department of English and Center for the Study of Southern Culture, and
Yoknapatawpha Press/Faulkner Newsletter.
New Internet Addresses
Several Faulkner-related web sites and mailing lists have recently announced new
web site and email addresses. The William Faulkner Society web site is
now located at www.acad.swarthmore.edu/faulkner/.
The William Faulkner Foundation in France can be reached at www.william-faulkner.org/.
The email addresses for the William Faulkner Email Discussion Group (mailing
list) have also changed
. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe faulkner" (without the
quotation marks) to md@listserv.olemiss.edu.
To post messages to the list, send email to faulkner@listserv.olemiss.edu.
June 2000
The 27th Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha
Conference, "Faulkner in the 21st Century," will take place in
Oxford, Mississippi, from July 23-28, 2000. Among the scholars who will be
presenting this year are Deborah N. Cohn, Leigh Anne Duck,
Robert Hamblin,
Michael Kreyling, Barbara Ladd, Walter Benn Michaels, Patrick O’Donnell,
Theresa Towner, and
Karl F. Zender. Also featured at this year's conference is a reading from
novelist Larry Brown and the presentation of a documentary film "Tell About
the South" narrated by Rita Dove. Information on registration and other
conference offerings are available at the conference
web site.
New Internet Addresses
Several Faulkner-related web sites and mailing lists have recently announced new
web site and email addresses. The William Faulkner Society web site is
now located at www.acad.swarthmore.edu/faulkner/.
The William Faulkner Foundation in France can be reached at www.william-faulkner.org/.
The email addresses for the William Faulkner Email Discussion Group (mailing
list) have also changed
. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe faulkner" (without the
quotation marks) to md@listserv.olemiss.edu.
To post messages to the list, send email to faulkner@listserv.olemiss.edu.
Web Site Update
Over the past few months, I've been working on improving both the content and
the navigability of William Faulkner on the Web. I plan to continue
working on the site, adding features, more information, etc., but there remain
gaps and holes that have yet to be filled, as well as, I am sure, errors, broken
links, etc. Please bear with me
as I try to fill such gaps. Everything in this web site is done voluntarily by a
single person, so it remains a challenge to find the free time to devote to the
web site. Thank you for understanding.
August 1999
The 26th Annual Faulkner
and Yoknapatawpha Conference, "Faulkner and Postmodernism," has
ended. Winning this year's "Faux Faulkner" contest was "Where the
Southern Crosses the Dog," by Samuel Tumey, a lawyer from Liberty,
Mississippi, who had previously won the contest in 1994. His entry, a 500-word
sentence written in imitation of Faulkner’s unique writing style, tells about a
unique railroad crossing where two rail lines cross each other at an angle. An
article about this year's contest is available online at CNN.com. You can also
read the winning entry online.
Mississippi Writer Willie Morris dies
Willie Morris, a writer and former editor
of Harper’s Magazine, died August 2, 1999, in Jackson, Mississippi,
following a heart attack. Morris's books include North Toward Home, Terrains
of the Heart and Other Stories of Home, and New York Days, which
describes his years in New York City as the youngest editor of the nation's
oldest magazine. With fellow Mississippi writer Shelby
Foote, Morris was on hand in September 1997 to dedicate a bronze statue of
William Faulkner in front of City Hall in Faulkner’s hometown, Oxford,
Mississippi. For more information about Morris, you may access the
article about him in The
Mississippi Writers Page.
September 1997
September 25: William Faulkner’s 100th birthday.
This is Faulkner Centennial month, and there are so many celebrations and
tributes taking place around the world that I've collected information about as
many of them as I could find in a newly designed and enhanced Faulkner
News page. Two of the tributes, from National Public Radio and on television
via C-SPAN2, come via media which Faulkner hated. NPR will broadcast
a three-hour special
over three days (September 23-25), with all three hour-long segments being
rebroadcast on Saturday, September 27. (Note: This is true for Mississippi
Public Radio. Check your local listings.) The original program features Stacy
Keach along with other critics and commentators, and each segment will also
feature a dramatization of a Faulkner short story.
C-SPAN2, meanwhile, will broadcast one night's slate of lectures from the 24th
Annual Faulkner and Yoknapatawpha Conference, which took place at the
University of Mississippi in Oxford from July 27 to August 1. C-SPAN recorded a
discussion on "Faulkner and America," which included talks by Doreen
Fowler, David Minter, and John Duvall.
In Mississippi, the key celebrations will take place on several fronts. On
Faulkner’s birthday, Oxford will witness the dedication of a new (and
controversial) statue in front of the City Hall. Designed by local sculptor
William Beckwith, the statue will feature Faulkner sitting. On hand at the 10
a.m. ceremony will be fellow Mississippi writers Shelby Foote and Willie
Morris.
Later that same day, the University of Mississippi will commemorate Faulkner
with a series of tributes and readings from his work. The program will begin at
2 p.m. in Fulton Chapel. At 3:30, the university will serve birthday cake in
the Lyceum Circle, and at 6 p.m., Square Books will simply toast Faulkner ...
with no speeches or readings.
Also on September 25, New Albany will begin its three-day Faulkner Centennial
Celebration. Featuring dramatic performances, lectures, crafts, food, and
fireworks, it promises to be quite a blast.
The City of Charlottesville and the University of Virginia -- Faulkner’s other
hometown late in life -- will also feature a birthday celebration and free
T-shirts to a limited number of book buyers.
In New Orleans, another of Faulkner’s one-time homes (briefly, however -- less
than one year in 1925), the Pirates Alley Faulkner Society will sponsor a
celebration which they hope will become an annual event.
And finally, in Washington, D.C., the PEN/Faulkner Foundation, which was
initially funded by Faulkner’s Nobel Prize winnings, will sponsor an all-day
reading of The Sound and the Fury beginning at noon in Politics &
Prose, a Washington, D.C., bookstore.
There are undoubtedly other Faulkner Centennial celebrations going on around
the world this month, but these are among the biggest. Check the Faulkner
News page for more information about all of these events.
Still More Celebrations
On October 10, the C.G. Jung Educational
Center of Houston, Texas, will present a Faulkner Centennial Program.
Beginning at 5 p.m., the program will consist of four short talks on various
aspects of the author's life and works, including a biographical sketch, a
reader's first and second impressions, Faulkner’s contribution to Modernism,
and psychological images in Faulkner’s major novels. Presenters will be James
Hutchison, Ed.D., psychologist; Connie Michalos, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Literature at Houston Baptist University; and Sandi Stromberg, M.A., Director
of Brigit Place, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston. The C.G. Jung Center is
located at 5200 Montrose, Houston, 77006 in Houston's Museum District. The
program is free and open to the general public. For more information, contact
the Jung Center (Dolores Spencer, Acting Administrator) at programs@cgjunghouston.org.
New Faulkner Books
William Faulkner: The Making of a Modernist, by Daniel J. Singal, is
"a major new intellectual biography" from the University of North
Carolina Press. It is being published in September 1997 to correspond with the
author's 100th birthday. You can find out more and read excerpts at this
web site sponsored by the publisher.
July/August 1997
The Faulkner Centennial celebrations are well underway. From July 27 to August
1, Faulkner scholars gathered in his hometown of Oxford,
Mississippi, for the 24th Annual Faulkner
and Yoknapatawpha Conference at the University
of Mississippi. Featuring the theme of "Faulkner at 100: Retrospect and
Prospect," the conference drew a record attendance and was without doubt
the single biggest gathering of Faulkner scholars ever. Papers presented at the
conference will eventually be published by the University
Press of Mississippi (as all but the first two of past conferences have
been).
Exhibitions related to Faulkner abound. At the University of Mississippi, at
least two special exhibitions are noteworthy. First, "Faulkner’s World: The
Photographs of Martin J. Dain" is on exhibit at the University
Museums through October, after which the exhibition will be available for
touring. An accompanying book of the same title, edited by Tom Rankin with a
foreword by Larry Brown, will be published in September by the University Press
of Mississippi and the Center for
the Study of Southern Culture (ISBN 1-57806-016-8, $40). The book features
100 photos, while the museum exhibit features 40 photographs taken by Dain in
Lafayette County between 1961 and 1963. Grants from the Mississippi
Humanities Council and The Appalachian
Regional Commission have made it possible for organizations within these
areas to host this exhibit for a minimal fee. Anyone interested in hosting an
exhibition of the Dain photographs should contact Angela Griffin at the
University of Mississippi, aegriffi@olemiss.edu.
Also on exhibit at the University of Mississippi through the end of September
are photographs by longtime Faulkner photographers Col. J.R. Cofield and his
son, Jack. The exhibit, located in Barnard Observatory on the Ole Miss campus,
will also be available for touring following its exhibition here.
Several photographs from both these collections may be viewed online at the Southern
Media Archive of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture web site.
A third exhibit at Ole Miss is A Faulkner 100: The Centennial Exhibition,
presented by the
Department of Archives and Special Collections in the John
Davis Williams Library. Located in the Faulkner Room in the library, the
exhibit features assorted manuscripts, books, photographs, and other
paraphernalia associated with William Faulkner and the Faulkner family. The
library is also publishing a catalog to accompany the exhibition.
The Center for Faulkner Studies at Southeast
Missouri State University is presenting "The
Faulkner Centennial: A Visual Arts Exhibition," from September 2-30. An
art contest and exhibit based on Faulkner’s life and work, the centennial
exhibit is co-sponsored by the Center for Faulkner Studies, the University
Museum, and the Arts Council of Southeast Missouri. For more information about
the art contest call 573-334-9233 or E-mail
beverly@mvp.net. Also scheduled is a lecture, "Faulkner and the Visual
Arts," by Max Cordonnier, an exhibit of the Brodsky
Collection, and lectures by other Faulkner scholars. For more information on
the centennial program call Robert Hamblin at (573) 651-2628 or E-mail the
Center for Faulkner Studies at C708HUE@semovm.semo.edu.
September 25: William Faulkner’s 100th birthday.
A statue of Faulkner by Mississippi sculptor William Beckwith will be dedicated
in front of the City Hall on the Courthouse Square in Oxford, Mississippi, on
September 25. On hand for the dedication will be fellow Mississippi writers
Shelby Foote and Willie Morris. Visit the Oxford city page for more details, or
call (601) 236-1310.
Faulkner was actually born thirty miles east of Oxford in New
Albany, and a three-day celebration there will commemorate the occasion of
his 100th birthday. The celebration will include theatrical performances, an
arts and crafts festival, film presentations, teacher workshops, scholarly
lectures, musical performances, storytelling, a Faulkner family tour, a 5K run,
and fireworks. There is no registration fee, but several of the events require
tickets. For more information call the Union County Development Association at
1-888-534-8232, or write to the Union County Historical Society, P.O. Box 657,
New Albany, MS 38652.
In Washington, D.C., the PEN/Faulkner
Foundation is sponsoring a reading of the complete text of The Sound and the
Fury on September 25 beginning at noon and going into the night at Politics
and Prose Bookstore, located at the intersection of Connecticut and Nebraska
Avenues. To sign up to read part of this novel, call Janice Delany at (202)
675-0345, or telephone the bookstore at (202) 364-1919.
In New Orleans, Louisiana, on September 28, a birthday party in honor of
Faulkner’s centennial will be hosted by Faulkner House Books in association with
the Pirate's Alley Faulkner Society. The bookstore now operated by Joe DeSalvo
is located in the French Quarter adjacent to St. Louis Cathedral and was where
Faulkner lived in 1925 when he wrote his first novel. For more information,
please contact Faulkner House Books, 624 Pirate's Alley, New Orleans, LA 701116;
telephone (504) 524-2940.
On October 10, the C.G. Jung Educational
Center of Houston, Texas, will present a Faulkner Centennial Program.
Beginning at 5 p.m., the program will consist of four short talks on various
aspects of the author's life and works, including a biographical sketch, a
reader's first and second impressions, Faulkner’s contribution to Modernism, and
psychological images in Faulkner’s major novels. Presenters will be James
Hutchison, Ed.D., psychologist; Connie Michalos, Ph.D., Associate Professor of
Literature at Houston Baptist University; and Sandi Stromberg, M.A., Director of
Brigit Place, Christ Church Cathedral, Houston. The C.G. Jung Center is located
at 5200 Montrose, Houston, 77006 in Houston's Museum District. The program is
free and open to the general public. For more information, contact the Jung
Center (Dolores Spencer, Acting Administrator) at programs@cgjunghouston.org.
May/June 1997
This year marks the centennial of Faulkner’s birth in New Albany, Mississippi,
and celebrations are being held all over the world. The Annual Faulkner
and Yoknapatawpha Conference in Oxford, to be held July 27-August 1 in
Faulkner’s hometown, will devote its program to the question "Retrospect
and Prospect." You can even register
online for the conference.
Other local centennial events include the dedication of a statue of Faulkner on
the square in Oxford on his birthday,
September 25, and a three-day celebration beginning September 25 in New Albany,
30 miles east of Oxford, that will include storytelling, music and art exhibits,
dramatic performances, and a keynote address by Dr. Robert Hamblin of the Center
for Faulkner Studies at Southeast Missouri State University.
For information about these and other Faulkner centennial events, visit the Faulkner
Centennial page at the Center
for Faulkner Studies web site.
Faulkner Online:
The Southern
Media Archive at the University of Mississippi's Center for the Study of
Southern Culture features two impressive online photographic exhibits of
Faulkner, by Jack Cofield and by Martin Dain.
The
University of Delaware has a special online exhibit of its William
Faulkner: A Centenary Celebration.
Sign on to
the Faulkner E-mail discussion group, administered by Faulkner scholar Joseph
Urgo. To subscribe, send the message "subscribe faulkner" to majordomo@bryant.edu
For information on the mailing list, send the message "info faulkner"
to the same address.
Articles
from recent issues of the Teaching Faulkner newsletter are now available
online.
Y'all,
an online magazine concerned with all things Southern, has a few
Faulkner-related items in its reading
and writing section, but the most curious is undoubtedly the "Wrassling"
match between "The General" Robert E. Lee and "Wild
Bill" Faulkner.
For lots of additional online sites and exhibitions, visit The
Carriage House section of this web site to board a wagon (or buckboard) to
other sites on the information highway.
Author's Notes:
I haven't updated the "What's New" page lately because of the lack of
major changes on the site, but that doesn't mean there aren't any recent
updates. Check the date at the bottom of each page to find when it was last
modified.
Those few changes notwithstanding, this web site's growth has been slow over
the past eight months for two main reasons: money, and time. Most of my time has
been toward the development of a couple of other web sites, the most significant
of which is The
Mississippi Writers Page, which is being presented by the University of
Mississippi English Department.
It is still in an embryonic state, but as it continues to grow, it will feature
biographical and critical articles on the hundreds of writers who once lived or
now reside in the Magnolia State.
Note: Links to external sites are subject to change.
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