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Oct. 06, 2008: The Writer's Almanac


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Added: Monday, October 6, 2008 
Source: APM: Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac Podcast feed

Summary:
Monday’s Poem: “The Scientist” by Johnathan Holden from The Names of the Rapids. Monday’s Literary Notes: It was on this day, October 6th, that two of William Faulkner’s novels were published, two years apart: As I Lay Dying came out in 1930 and Light in August in 1932. Faulkner wrote As I Lay Dying in just six weeks; he wrote it while he worked the night shift at a power plant. It follows the journey of the Bundren family across Mississippi to bury their mother. The novel is narrated by 15… 

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