The Real Housewives of Yoknapatawpha County

January 18, 2014 | 1 book mentioned

All of Faulkner’s characters exist in the same county, so they probably ran into each other. What if there were a Real Housewives of Yoknapatawpha County? Nathan Pensky humorously imagines the feuds between As I Lay Dying’s Addie Bundren and the protagonist of “A Rose for Emily”  among others at McSweeney’s.

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