David Milch, creator of NYPD Blue and Deadwood,
has inked a deal with HBO to produce television shows and movies from the literary works of William Faulkner.
“I’m not, probably, the first person they would have thought of approaching them,” Mr. Milch said in a phone interview, referring to his months-long discussions with the William Faulkner Literary Estate. “But a number of conversations were fruitful and here we are.”Faulkner
previously; Milch
previously
posted by not_the_water
on Dec 1, 2011 -
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Faulkner Friday: William Faulkner's connection with the
University of Mississippi was a varied one, including a stint as an
abysmal postmaster. Regardless, Ole Miss has put together
a vast website dedicated to the writer. Learn about his
life,
his family tree, his
home at Rowan Oak, and
even a FAQ for those common questions. Learn about his
novels, his
short stories, and his
poems. And if that's all old hat, how about information on his
work in Hollywood, a
source of academic resources on the writer, a
listing of other websites on Faulkner, and lastly, a
page of trivia, quotes, and quizzes.
posted by Atreides
on Aug 14, 2009 -
7 comments
The Sound and the Fury. 75 years ago,
William Faulkner finished
his fourth novel. It was
published later in the fall (October 7, 1929), and for the first fifteen years sales totaled just over 3,300 copies (an
appendix was
added in 1946, when
most of Faulkner's books were
out of print. Of course, a few years after that he was awarded the
Nobel Prize). It was Faulkner's own favorite novel, primarily, he said, because he considered it his "most splendid failure".
Many critics think it's the finest work of an American Master: the key to Faulkner, wrote
Alfred Kazin (.pdf file), lies not only in the unflinching extremity of his God-blasted characters, but in the odd and unaccountable moments of redemptive human tenderness.
The Internet is very kind to Faulkner's fans: we can check out the
Faulkner home, his
manuscripts and even his pipe, trivia from his
Postmaster's days, we can read examples of his
snarkiness (hurled against Hemingway and
Clark Gable), we can admire the pages of
screenplays from his
Hollywood days. We can go to Faulkner academic conferences, too: in the
USA and
Japan. Want to know what
Bunny Wilson and
Ralph Ellison had to say about Faulkner?
Here.
(more inside, with Conan O'Brien)
posted by matteo
on Jun 11, 2004 -
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