The virtues of writing that’s boring

Of the name Sartoris, Faulkner wrote: "For there is death in the sound of it,  and a glamorous fatality, like silver pennons downrushing at sunset, or a dying fall of horns along the road to Roncevaux." Malcolm Cowley used one word to describe that sentence: "overwriting" Really? Overwriting? The poetry of it stunned me (and still does); … Continue reading The virtues of writing that’s boring