If you want to know about the South, you read Faulkner.
I don't suppose you've read Faulkner?
Even without having read Faulkner, we can intuit what scares the boy so much about himself.
Would I ever read Faulkner again?
Then he questioned the number of serious readers in the United States, adding that even novelists he knows are not reading Faulkner.
He helped lead the Cuban revolution, lived in New York for 15 years, reads Joyce and Faulkner, and loves socialism.
"My brother was reading Faulkner at an early age, but other than that I don't think a single reference to Faulkner has ever been made in my family."
I was reading Faulkner.
That wasn't until I was 29, that I could finally read Faulkner in that way.
To occupy himself off the court, he writes poetry and reads Faulkner.