Kill Bill

Paris Review: Egan’s story of how she wrote Goon Squad has been repeated on many occasions—she was frustrated with writing the novel she was supposed to and so she began to write interlocking stories about a handful of characters—but she admitted that evening that she owes a great debt to Quentin Tarantino for the way Goon Squad plays with chronology and narrative. “I had to completely let go of any kind of linear chronology,” Egan told us before playing the movie. “But it was interesting how hard that was to do. There was something in me that didn’t want to do it, even though I knew that the most fun of the book, even as I was working on it, was not going forward.”

Ed writes: The other day I was thinking about The Sound and the Fury, its radical, complex, time-bending structure. Then I seemed to recall that Quentin Tarantino was named after S&F's Quentin Compson. Is that true? Has QT ever talked about Faulkner as an influence? (I know he's acknowledged a debt to Salinger's Glass stories.)

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The headline to this post doesn't really make sense, but it sort of does if you don't think about it.

Monday morning quarterbook

Dizzyhead Jason, our Canadian correspondent, has devised this dazzlingly lustmordant spinal narrative:

Road rules

We all know about this, right? I'm excited.

O: You spent a lot of time in Tennessee. What was that like?
C: Men's memories are uncertain and the past that was differs little from the past that was not.

Here's hoping Dizzyhead Rob will have a full report, when the time comes...

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Maybe everybody knows this—Cormac McCarthy's editor on 1965's The Orchard Keeper was Albert Erskine, who'd edited Faulkner. I just learned this here, on a site with more pics of CMcC than I assumed existed!