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  • Her plays "Dream of a Common Language" Helen Hayes Award for outstanding resident production and "Faulkner's Bicycle" were produced there in the mid-1990s.

    Backstage: 'An Almost Holy Picture' playwright Heather McDonald Jane Horwitz 2011

  • Perhaps I was influenced by Faulkner's idea that the past is always with us, but when I tried to write like him, it was an utter disaster.

    A Conversation with Liza Ward 2010

  • Their work isn't better than we thought because we've suddenly discovered that Faulkner's is worse.

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • Ethnic Studies alumni and current University of Arizona student and author Andrés Domínguez understands Faulkner's admonition.

    Jeff Biggers: Arizona 2012: New Leaders With Ethnic Studies Caravan Will Move On and Flourish, Barking Dogs Will Fade Jeff Biggers 2011

  • In the intervening summer, he had an affair with William Faulkner's mistress and traveled around Europe in an old convertible.

    An Auction Life, Self-Appraised Maxwell Carter 2011

  • Adrienne Martini's review of the book in the Baltimore City Paper asserts that the first story, Christopher Barzak's "What We Know About the Lost Families of -------- House," "feels wholly unique, as if it is rewriting our expectations about what kind of story it is even as we're reading it," but it's really just a haunted-house variation on Faulkner's "A Rose for Emily."

    Experimental Fiction 2010

  • People are aware, however, that Gone with the Wind is part of the infamous "lost cause literature," among which is William Faulkner's 1948 novel Intruder in the Dust, where he describes Pickett's doomed assault during the battle of Gettysburg:

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • People are aware, however, that Gone with the Wind is part of the infamous "lost cause literature," among which is William Faulkner's 1948 novel Intruder in the Dust, where he describes Pickett's doomed assault during the battle of Gettysburg:

    Franz-Stefan Gady: Gone with the Wind: Gone in the Head Franz-Stefan Gady 2011

  • William Faulkner's advice to "write what you know" comes naturally to Sophia Takal.

    In Greenpoint, Life Inspires Art Steve Dollar 2011

  • But none of Faulkner's Injuns here, not his bear hunt.

    A Bear Hunt in Riga Josef K. Strosche 2011

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