Robert Dale Parker
Here for books, especially US and/or Modern fiction and poetry, lit crit, critical theory, mysteries and crime fiction, and mystery/crime fiction writers and writing. Author of How to Interpret Literature and books on US and Native American fiction and poetry.
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Many thanks to Elysia Balavage for this generous review (the first!) of my recent book, The Literature of Extreme Poverty in the Great Depression (available online for free at many academic libraries).
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Haven't seen that cover before. Not pleased with the portrait of Benjy or the cliché depiction of Dilsey, and not so sure about the circus monkey. But it's good to see a cover that I haven't seen before (and as a Faulkner scholar I've seen many covers of Le bruit et la fureur/The Sound and the Fury), and I hope you enjoyed the book!
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I guess I should use the occasion of Trump’s ruthless & callous Gatsby party last night to announce the appearance of my latest article: “Wealthy White Whining: The Great Depression in the Stories of F. Scott Fitzgerald,” in the latest issue of Studies in American Fiction.
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Cool lineup of literary villains in a LitHub March Madness sudden death tournament.
Sure, you can't include them all, but what about #Faulkner??? Flem Snopes of The Snopes Trilogy (The Hamlet, The Town, The Mansion), Buck Hipps of The Hamlet, Thomas Sutpen of Absalom, Absalom!? And most of all, Jason Compson of The Sound and the Fury!
What other literary villains would you add?