University Of Virginia Puts Out Faulkner Audio Archives

RICHMOND, Va. — Fans of Southern literature have read William Faulkner for decades. Now they can hear the author speak.

The University of Virginia has published an online audio archive of the Nobel- and Pulitzer Prize-winning author's two-year term as writer-in-residence at the Charlottesville school in the late 1950s. In the recordings, Faulkner talks about his books, his career and the events of the day.

"Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive" contains about 28 hours of the author's speeches, readings of his works and his answers to more than 1,400 questions posed by students and other audience members.

U.Va. professor Stephen Railton led the effort to put together the archive. He hopes the recordings will lead people to rediscover Faulkner's books.

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Online:

Faulkner at Virginia: An Audio Archive: http://faulkner.lib.virginia.edu/

Comments

[goplayrabbit]

06:52 PM on 07/25/2010

read light in august if you haven't.

[OzarkAggie]

05:29 PM on 07/25/2010

I took a senior/grad class on Faulkner at the University of Arizona. Interesting to hear his voice, but I wish they had a reading of The Bear - at least the opening. My other favorites were Light in August, and As I Lay Dying - despite the fact that dogs lay and people lie - as much as for the conditions under which he wrote it as for the story.

[samwisegamgee]

08:04 AM on 07/26/2010

Professor Doug Canfield by any chance?

[nolabear]

01:31 PM on 07/25/2010

As a writer who grew up in Mississippi and "writes Southern," with strong emphasis on complex characters, how could I not be thrilled by these recordings? Thank you for taking the trouble to make Faulkner's voice and thoughts about his writing available to us. I'm making the every-few-years pilgrimmage to Rowan Oak this summer and have the strong desire for this to be available there so his voice can inhabit the house once more. Again, thank you!