/lit/ - Literature

Hey /lit/, I've gotta give a 1-2 minute memorized speech next week and I'd like to keep it lit related. Any suggestions?

If someone wanted to read Faulkner, where would you suggest them to start?

His first book? Something later?

>I'm a failed poet. Maybe every novelist wants to write poetry first, finds he can't, and then tries the short story, which is the most demanding form after poetry. And, failing at that, only then does he take up novel writing.

http://www.theparisreview.org/interviews/4954/the-art-of-fiction-no-12-william-faulkner

Discuss

I am in need of guidance /lit/. I have to write an interview between me and Miss Emily from A Rose for Emily. I have to ask her three questions and I can't figure out anything that is creative and interesting. So my question to you all is, if you could ask her anything.. what would you ask? Also, my teacher grades both content and mechanics. Is there a specific format that dialogue has to be written in for an interview.

the only Faulker I've read is As I Lay Dying. What should I read next?

So, I'm starting to feel that Faulkner's stories are more essential to read than his novels if you're looking to understand the universe he created. I mean, As I Lay Dying is brilliant, so is The Sound and the Fury, but it seems like they can only be fully appreciated once you're more acquainted with Yoknapatawpha.

What do you think, /lit/?

Ok, what should be my plan of attack with Faulkner?

http://stephanpastis.wordpress.com/2010/03/04/the-sound-the-fury-the-big-sleep-and-the-stephan/

my jimmies are so rustled right now

Hey /lit/, for an essay, I have to write a critical analysis on either a book or a poem of my choosing.

My choices right now are:
"The Love Song of J. Alred Prufrock," by T.S. Eliot
"Hysteria," by T.S. Eliot
"Rhapsody on a Windy Night," by T.S. Eliot (guess who one of my favorite poets is)
"A Supermarket in California," by Allen Ginsberg
Nineteen Eighty-Four, by George Orwell
Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley
As I Lay Dying, by William Faulkner
The Grapes of Wrath, by John Steinbeck

Considering I like them all (sort of) equally, which one do you think would make for the best analysis? The essay has to be fewer than 1.5k words long. I think analyzing a poem would allow for a little more "intimacy" and ingenuity, but a book would provide more text to "work with," more literary and stylistic devices, and allow for a more philosophically penetrating approach. Only looking for opinions and thoughts, not really a definite answer.

>tl;dr which of these books/poems should i analyze

What the Faulkner you guys talking about?