
“A Conflicted, Imperfect Love.” Jesmyn Ward on William Faulkner’s As I Lay Dying
I first read Faulkner in high school, when one of my classmates reported that he was his favorite writer. Every one of us had to do the same; I’d spent a year or so reading Gabriel García Márquez’s work, so I did my report on Love in the Time of Cholera …