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# The stream of consciousness begins
- URL: https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/the-stream-of-consciousness-begins/
- Published: 2025-04-16T18:06:21.000Z
- Updated: 2025-04-16T18:06:21.000Z
- Author: Carla Pettigrew
- Tags: Newsletter, William Faulkner, reading challenges, Nobel Prize, Harvard University, The Sound and the Fury, Henry James, What Maisie Knew, Gustav Flaubert, Madame Bovary, Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, Toni Morrison, Beloved, episode 78

[r/classicbookclub](https://www.reddit.com/r/ClassicBookClub/) announced their next group read. It’s one of the more challenging novels in the English language, I eventually want to read all of this author’s work, and…this novel is part of The Story Graph reading challenge I created: [Harvard Bookstore Top 100](https://app.thestorygraph.com/reading%5Fchallenges/c4f05179-b99a-4166-8d8b-0a7171b246b6). There’s my celebratory run-on sentence for you. Here we are, then, me and [The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner, The Corrected Text](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780679732242). Talk to me, Mr. Faulkner, I’m joining in.

> “I am in awe of Faulkner’s Benjy, James’s [Maisie](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9781101199688), Flaubert’s [Emma](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143106494), Melville’s [Pip](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143105954), Mary Shelley’s [Frankenstein](https://bookshop.org/a/6560/9780143131847)—each of us can extend the list.... I am interested in what prompts and makes possible this process of entering what one is estranged from.” —[Toni Morrison](https://there-might-be-cupcakes-podcast.ghost.io/beloved-the-chaos-of-the-needy-dead-6ae/)

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