What’s Wrong with Holden Caulfield in _The Catcher in the Rye_?

Who’s Afraid of William Faulkner? (Nearly Everyone)

The novels and short stories of William Faulkner are difficult reading for most people. That they were never popular hits on the order of Harry Potter is demonstrated by the author’s stints in Hollywood, writing film scripts for money…

Boats against the Current, Mr. Fitzgerald?

The last sentence of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s archetypal…

How Can I Write Like William Faulkner or Cormac McCarthy?

You Can’t, but There’s a Little More to It.

The Eternal Ache of Loss in _The Catcher in the Rye_

What the Last Sentence Tells Us about Holden and…

Cormac McCarthy’s Word Films

Critic Harold Bloom has described some of McCarthy’s work as derivative of William Faulkner’s and other work…

What Is American Fiction, but a Dream within a Dream?

Does “The Great Gatsby” Have a Reliable Narrator?