William Faulkner

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Wright Thompson discusses reading Faulkner's works and how they should be understood through the lens of bewilderment at the rapid transformation of the Mississippi Delta wilderness.

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Mentioned alongside other Faulkner works as examples of literature that deals with civilization versus nature in the Mississippi Delta.

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Discussed as one of Faulkner's works that explores the existential loss and trauma of wilderness being erased in the Mississippi Delta.

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Mentioned as very difficult book looking back to Civil War and slavery in American South

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The episode opens with a lengthy quote from this 1948 novel about a Southern boy imagining Pickett's Charge at Gettysburg. The hosts explicitly identify it as 'William Faulkner, Intruders in the Dust, 1948' and note it contains 'probably his single most famous passage.'

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Kevin Murphy describes discovering this book of Faulkner's hunting stories by accident at a bookstore. He found it and thought it looked good, leading to his appreciation of Faulkner's hunting-related literature.

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Kevin mentions this was a Faulkner book they were made to read in high school or grade school, but it was not a hunting book.