Tag: Jamelah Earle
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Southern Gothic: Jamelah Earle on Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
On a recent Wednesday night at the Chamblin’s Uptown Poetry Reading, Dack Saig was explaining to me that William Faulkner was one of the originators of Southern Gothic. It reminded me of an article by Jamelah Earle, about Faulkner’s novel The Sound and the Fury, which I read some time ago on Literary Kicks. I went…
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Three for “T” (Norris, Mcneill, & Agnelli on “V” Author Thomas Pynchon)
Photo of Lauren Agnelli by Chion Wolf I’m reading my first Thomas Pynchon novel, V. and wondering if Pynchon created the urban legend about baby alligators being flushed down toilets and growing into big alligators in the sewers of New York, or did he simply take a pre-existing rumor and expand upon it. For that…