Chapter 30: William Faulkner, featuring Thomas Lennon

The Dead Authors Podcast

Paul F. Tompkins

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🗓️ 13 May 2014

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Chapter 30: H.G. Wells (Paul F. Tompkins) welcomes Nobel Laureate William Faulkner (Thomas Lennon) to the podcast, recorded live at The Brave Theatre in San Francisco as part of SketchFest 2014.

NOTE: The sound on this episode is not, shall we say, "good." So be sure to plant your earbuds, water them with volume, and let the audio blossom!

Photo: Liezl Estipona

Thanks to The Time Travel Mart and 826LA.

826 National is a nonprofit organization that provides strategic leadership, administration, and other resources to ensure the success of its network of eight writing and tutoring centers. 826 centers offer a variety of inventive programs that provide under-resourced students, ages 6-18, with opportunities to explore their creativity and improve their writing skills. We also aim to help teachers get their classes excited about writing. Our mission is based on the understanding that great leaps in learning can happen with one-on-one attention, and that strong writing skills are fundamental to future success. Last year our tutoring centers — located in Ann Arbor, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, New York, San Francisco, Seattle and Washington, DC — served over 29,000 students.

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0:00.0	This podcast is intended as entertainment for grown-ups and to spread awareness of 826 LA, a non-profit writing and tutoring center for children ages 6 to 18.
0:08.5	Visit 826LA.org for a full schedule of 826L's events and programs including the time travel
0:14.4	Mart with locations in Echo Park and Mar Vista, California. And now the host of the
0:19.1	dead author's podcast, Mr. H.G. Wells.
0:29.0	Hello everyone and welcome to Chapter 30 of the Dead Authors Podcast. Why the note of melancholy you ask?
0:31.0	Could it have something to do with the
0:33.2	disc chronological order of recent chapters of our program? It could and does. While I am
0:39.1	pleased to report the chapter 30 features a discussion with author and Nobel Laureate William Faulkner that took place in front of a large and enthusiastic audience at this year's San Francisco Sketchfest.
0:50.0	I am displeased to report that this enthralling and lightning and entertaining discussion
0:55.8	is nigh unlistenable.
0:57.8	Permit me to explain.
0:59.5	At the conclusion of the evening in question, I nipped round to collect the audio, but upon entering the production booth, my heart froze, then thawed just long enough to skip a beat, only to immediately freeze again. Slumped over the mixing board was none other than Abernathy.
1:15.4	The scoundrel whose drunken antics destroyed the audio recording of chapter 2 of this very
1:20.6	podcast.
1:21.6	Apparently after I had him sacked from his post at the
1:24.1	UCB theatre in Los Angeles, the reprobate staggered his way up the coast and
1:28.4	somehow landed a plumb posting in the audio recording department of Sketchfest.
1:33.0	Damn him, I say!
1:35.0	Damn Abenathie for all eternity!
1:38.0	Little did I know that as I pelted the shameful inebriate with empty blueberry shnops bottle, my worst fears would soon
1:46.8	be confirmed. The audio of my discussion with Mr. Faulkner was an absolute wreck.
1:52.2	I did my level best to improve it, but even after weeks of tinkering,
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