Faulkner on Gavin Stevens, "A Rose for Emily," and Spillane.

William Faulkner by Carl Van
Vechten, 1954. Library of
Congress, Prints and
Photographs Division

In both transcripts and audio from University of Virginia, William Faulkner talks about his lawyer character Gavin Stevens, his mystery-related story "A Rose for Emily," and the use of violence in his work, as well as takes a swipe at Mickey Spillane. He used to see James Joyce in Paris and tells of the role of Winesburg, Ohio's Sherwood Anderson in his first book.

Letters of Sylvia Beach published.

Just released by Columbia University Press: The Letters of Sylvia Beach, featuring the correspondence of the Baltimore-born proprietor of Paris's expatriate hangout Shakespeare & Co., who is best known for her staunch publishing of James Joyce in the midst of rampant censorship. The press has a clip from an interview with Beach here.