Tuesday, October 9, 2007

Faulkner's Oxford

Last night I finished reading "Faulkner's Oxford" by Herman E. Taylor. Taylor had the luck to grow up in Oxford, Mississippi, and knew Faulkner's stepchildren. This book was a collection of his memories of talking to the great writer, as well as what Oxford was like when he and Faulkner were young. You have to be a real Faulkner nut (like myself) to be interested in knowing more about the people and places that inspired Faulkner, but if you are, this was an interesting book with lots of pictures of what Oxford used to look like as well as what it did look like when Taylor published the book in 1990.

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