Sing, Unburied, Sing
In his wonderfully cranky Nobel Prize acceptance speech, William Faulkner exhorted his fellow writers to create from the heart…Address the immortal truths, he instructed: "love and honor and pity and pride and compassion and sacrifice." The novelist Jesmyn Ward pinned this speech above her desk. Her memoir and three novels…feel hewn from these grand Faulknerian […]