Faulkner in Hollywood

May 7: On this day in 1932, thirty-four-year-old William Faulkner began his off-and-on career as a screenwriter, reluctantly (and just barely) reporting for work in Hollywood.

Thunderstruck

It’s been two decades since Elizabeth McCracken’s bravura story collection Here’s Your Hat What’s Your Hurry.  At long last she returns to the form in this collection, nine tales of ordinary lives transformed in ways large and small.  The title...