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We had Carl Rawlison on a few months back to discuss volume one of his biography of William Faulkner.

He's our country's preeminent literary biographer, and he's back with volume two of the Faulkner Chronicle.

Welcome, Carl.

Thank you, Mark.

All right.

Well, now we are in 1935.

You got a great cover photo here with Faulkner sitting in a, sitting in an easy chair in the sun with his cool sunglasses on and no shirt. He looks, what, is he in Hollywood at that point?

Yeah, he's in Hollywood at that time. Yeah, absolutely.

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