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† Although most of Faulkner's public sessions lasted about 50 minutes, a reel of tape was typically full after about half an hour. Thus during Faulkner's first term as Writer-in-Residence (Spring 1957), a few minutes in the middle of every session went unrecorded while a fresh tape was loaded on the recorder. The next year a new taping system was used, allowing a second 30-minute tape to begin recording as the first 30-minute tape was about to run out. This allowed a whole session to be captured on the two tapes, but invariably, a question and answer was divided between the two. For these double-taped sessions, we've taken the end of the first tape and spliced it into the beginning of the second, and made separate files of them. These "splices" allow you to hear the exchanges without interruption or repetition.