A National Geographic article about William Faulkner

by Billectric

Posted to What Are You Reading? on 2002-09-21 08:28:00

called “Faulkner’s Mississippi.” In the March 1989 issue.

According to the writer, Willie Morris, “In (Faulkner’s) youth, there were a few months in the East, in New Orleans, in Europe, but in the 1920’s something turned in him; he began to realize the advantages of using the place where he had been reared as the setting for much of his fiction.”

Good article. I found the magazine on a table at the Fuel Coffeehouse in 5-Points, in a pile of other magazines. I was going to ask the owner if I could have it, or borrow it, but my devious friend Chris (my real-life wife’s cousin who “Mark” is based on), says, “I’ll just steal the friggin thing.” He added it to his stack of free literature and walked right out the door. Did we do wrong?