Wow! I just joined a book club that's reading As I Lay Dying. Our first meeting is tomorrow so this post came at a really good time. Thanks!

Faulkner you magnificent bastard. All sunchairs, pipes, and shirtless men may now be burned, because they are worthless.

I love this quote. Thanks, Paul. I was just listening to Terry Gross's interview with David Cronenberg yesterday where she asked him if he still believed artists had no social responsibility, and he doesn't waver in response for a second. "No, they don't," he says, not hesitating.

No social responsibility with their art, I should properly contextualize.

Is he wearing slouch boots with his, um, towel?!