William Faulkner | Dry September

The History of Literature

Jacke Wilson

History, Books, Arts

4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 25 June 2020

⏱️ 104 minutes

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The fourth part of a three-part episode run! Jacke takes the advice of a listener and adds William Faulkner's "Dry September" (1931) to the Baldwin-Faulkner consideration. NOTE FOR LISTENERS: This story (and our discussion of it) contains disturbing references to sexual violence, racial slurs, and race-based hate crimes. Please exercise discretion in listening or playing for others. Help support the show at patreon.com/literature or historyofliterature.com/shop. (We appreciate it!) Find out more at historyofliterature.com, jackewilson.com, or by following Jacke and Mike on Twitter at @thejackewilson and @literatureSC. Or send an email to [email protected]. *** This show is a part of the Podglomerate network, a company that produces, distributes, and monetizes podcasts. We encourage you to visit the website and sign up for our newsletter for more information about our shows, launches, and events. For more information on how The Podglomerate treats data, please see our Privacy Policy. Since you're listening to The History of Literature, we'd like to suggest you also try other Podglomerate shows surrounding literature, history, and storytelling like Storybound, Micheaux Mission, and The History of Standup. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	The History of Literature Podcast is a member of the Podglamorate Network and LIT Hub Radio.
0:07.0	Hello, I'm Jack Wilson.
0:11.0	Welcome to The History of Literature. Okay, here we go. Take you a little sip of coffee there. Welcome to the podcast.
0:33.9	I'm Jack Wilson.
0:34.8	Very glad you could join us today, William Faulkner.
0:38.6	Just covered William Faulkner, didn't we?
0:41.2	Well, we did, and we didn't. Let me explain what I mean by that. Some of you may have
0:46.8	noticed that I am not following an orderly path. This is what I like to call the Heart of Darkness moment.
0:55.0	Something that happened here at the History of Literature Podcast.
0:58.0	I started with an order.
1:00.0	You may remember those of you who have been here since the beginning, the Epic of Gilgamesh, great.
1:05.2	Then we went through Homer and Greek tragedy in the Bible and everything was nice and orderly.
1:12.6	chronological.
1:14.4	That's such a great word.
1:15.6	I was being chronological.
1:18.4	Well, maybe it's a great word,
1:21.0	maybe it's a great concept, but it wasn't working for me. It worked until all of a sudden it didn't.
1:28.0	A couple of things happened. One was I wanted to have guests on the show and it was hard for me to schedule them and I didn't want to hold up episodes for a month because my expert in, I don't know, Herodotus was busy and it was time for Herodotus. When it's time for Herodotus when it's time for Herodotus it's time for Herodotus you know
1:49.0	Herodotus waits for no man I can remember in college I went into a bookstore on a Friday night once and I said I want a copy of Ulysses
1:57.6	And they said okay here's one
2:00.1	Handed me a book and I said no no
2:06.2	I'm looking for the hard cover one that has Joyce on the cover with his eye patch I saw it in here last week and they said oh yes the modern library version I said, yeah, yeah, whatever, that's the one.
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