On William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying

Nonfiction
By: | October 15, 2012

While ideological book banning is infuriating, banning out of ignorance and vague religiosity are, to me, even more galling. William Faulkner’s classic, As I Lay Dying, has been banned… More

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