Spencer Kornhaber

What stuck with me about the book, beyond the writing, is just this window into another part of America, another time in America that I really have and had no connection to, the 1930s South, poor South. It's about a poor...

family um transporting their dead mother in a coffin and she's rotting in the coffin and they're carrying her across rivers and you know getting taken advantage of in all these different ways and you learn about the family dynamics and uh it just it almost makes the south seem like a supernatural place you know that idea of southern gothic where everything is um there's always a story beneath the story uh that was very

family um transporting their dead mother in a coffin and she's rotting in the coffin and they're carrying her across rivers and you know getting taken advantage of in all these different ways and you learn about the family dynamics and uh it just it almost makes the south seem like a supernatural place you know that idea of southern gothic where everything is um there's always a story beneath the story uh that was very

family um transporting their dead mother in a coffin and she's rotting in the coffin and they're carrying her across rivers and you know getting taken advantage of in all these different ways and you learn about the family dynamics and uh it just it almost makes the south seem like a supernatural place you know that idea of southern gothic where everything is um there's always a story beneath the story uh that was very

alluring. And it's still, I just remember reading it for the first time and feeling transported to this version of America that was very far away from suburban Southern California in the early 2000s. The rhythms of the way Faulkner wrote got into my head. And, you know, I hope that they sort of still shape what I do, even though what I do is very far away from writing Southern Gothic novels.

alluring. And it's still, I just remember reading it for the first time and feeling transported to this version of America that was very far away from suburban Southern California in the early 2000s. The rhythms of the way Faulkner wrote got into my head. And, you know, I hope that they sort of still shape what I do, even though what I do is very far away from writing Southern Gothic novels.

alluring. And it's still, I just remember reading it for the first time and feeling transported to this version of America that was very far away from suburban Southern California in the early 2000s. The rhythms of the way Faulkner wrote got into my head. And, you know, I hope that they sort of still shape what I do, even though what I do is very far away from writing Southern Gothic novels.

But, you know, people are always saying that my Taylor Swift reviews are deeply Faulknerian. No, I'm kidding. But There are times when you just want to write a really long and strange sentence and hope the reader goes along with you. And I think that Faulkner is one of the writers who kind of inspired me to think about writing that way early on.

But, you know, people are always saying that my Taylor Swift reviews are deeply Faulknerian. No, I'm kidding. But There are times when you just want to write a really long and strange sentence and hope the reader goes along with you. And I think that Faulkner is one of the writers who kind of inspired me to think about writing that way early on.

But, you know, people are always saying that my Taylor Swift reviews are deeply Faulknerian. No, I'm kidding. But There are times when you just want to write a really long and strange sentence and hope the reader goes along with you. And I think that Faulkner is one of the writers who kind of inspired me to think about writing that way early on.

My name is Spencer Kornhaber, and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic, and I write about culture.

My name is Spencer Kornhaber, and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic, and I write about culture.

My name is Spencer Kornhaber, and I'm a staff writer at The Atlantic, and I write about culture.