Last Thursday, Faulkner Literary Rights, the company controlling William Faulkner’s works, proved two things by suing Sony Pictures Classics: 1) that they finally got around to seeing Midnight In Paris (2011); and 2) that they’re not down with Woody Allen’s decision to include two of the Nobel Prize-winning author’s lines in Owen Wilson’s dialogue.
The litigation is never dead. It’s not even past.
A literary magazine best served cold.
Break out your book of grudges because River Styx literary magazine has decided on the theme for their next issue: Revenge.
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Viva La Vida
“We break down thirty-nine literary journals and well-respected periodicals, tallying genre, book reviewers, books reviewed, and journalistic bylines to offer an accurate assessment of the publishing world.” This year's VIDA Count is out.
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To Whom It May Concern
“But upon learning that the unmarried 60-something Ms. Welty was a fan, the 50-something Macdonald — Ken Millar, to use his real name, as he does in these letters — dashed off a note of thanks. A reply followed within a week.” On a new book of letters between Eudora Welty and Ross MacDonald. You could also read Jonathan Clarke on the letters of Willa Cather.
Simpsons Did It
Nearly proven: The Infinite Monkey Theorem. The theorem, popularized by "The Simpsons", posits "that an infinite number of monkeys sitting at an infinite number of typewriters would eventually reproduce the works of Shakespeare by chance."
“The intersection of nature and man, and lovely”
In recent months we’ve had pieces about the homes belonging to Zora Neale Hurston and George Orwell, so in the spirit of that trend I encourage you to check out Nic Brown’s brief look at William Faulkner’s beloved Rowan Oak.
Home in the Apocalypse
"My mind moves toward apocalypse fictions the way we think about a forgotten friend, or a partner that’s left us—grief becomes its own comfort." Adnan Khan writes for Hazlitt about how apocalypse fictions mirror the immigrant experience and vice versa.
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So, what lines were they? Did they attribute them to Faulkner or just pretend they belonged to someone else? (I saw the movie, but don’t remember.) I know everyone’s a critic, but this seems like the start of an article–not a finished piece.
Hi Leslie,
The full-length article is linked within this Curiosity. (“…suing Sony Pictures Classics.”)
The lines are: “The past is never dead. It’s not even past,” as quoted from Requiem for a Nun (1950).