"So What to Do Now" Author: [US] William Faulkner People's Literature Publishing House

"If you want to have great poets, you must also have great readers."

— Faulkner quoting Walt Whitman

The essay collection "So What to Do Now" contains 36 essays published by American writer William Faulkner during his 40-year writing career. These articles are divided into three series: the first series is represented by essays such as "Remembering Sherwood Anderson", "Albert Camus" and "On Criticism"; the second series is the preface written by Faulkner for his own collection of works; the third series is represented by book reviews and drama reviews such as "American Comedy: Eugene O'Neill" and "American Drama: Repression". At the end of each article, the writing time and original source of the article are noted, so that readers can have a comprehensive understanding of Faulkner's reading and writing life.

Faulkner's essays were written with the same care as all his other works, and are part of his life's work... They are written in his own style and language, deliberately different from other contemporary literary criticism, and without adopting the clichés and terminology of any critical school.

—George Garrett, American writer and critic

William Faulkner (1897-1962), an American novelist, poet and playwright, is one of the most influential writers in American literary history and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1949. His representative works include novels such as The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Light in August.