NewBooksNetwork: Gay Faulkner (Y'all, this is cool!)

above: original pen-and-ink watercolor of Rowan Oak by Roy Neil Graves that became the cover of my book.

 Check out this link! On October 30, I was interviewed by Morris Ardoin and John Marszalek about my book, Gay Faulkner: Uncovering a Homosexual Presence in Yoknapatawpha and Beyond as part of the (still developing) channel for the New Books Network: Queer Voices of the South. 

NBN: Gay Faulkner

The interview was published this week, and despite the fact that I am a born talker, I do not have a terribly romantic relationship with the sound of my own voice. Still, it came out pretty good--especially around 40 minutes into the interview when we got to some gossipy stories that led to some questions about the place of queer voices in the south!

 Listen, enjoy, and, if the mood strikes you, give the book a chance. The redeeming value of Faulkner in 2020 is not his subservience to the past or his ability to catalogue a distinctly *acceptable* amount of concern and critique of racism from a white male perspective. No, his value is that WE can still read his enormous body of work and find so much in it. It is difficult to live such a full, rich life and not have something more later biographers can find and say, "You know, turns out he was human--and y'all, I heard tell somewhere that this world is downright full of wonders. Not a one more wonderful than folks."

[Sophocles, forgive me for what I just did to your famous comment].