Although she remained with the Post for just six months, she helped modernize the newspaper's Sunday magazine section with clever The New Yorker-style articles, including a series titled "Our Own Washington Letter.
The New York Times's reviewer found "Miss Faulkner's little opus is not only romantic, in an agreeably light and somewhat irreverent manner, but it is also decidedly and refreshingly 'comico.
The same week that The Barbarians was published, Faulkner married Everett Weil, a cotton broker and casual acquaintance, after a long night of drinking.
The New Yorker called it "quite as absurd and no less witty" than Friends and Romans and The New York Times said Faulkner was "a veritable genius for dialogue that snaps and sparkles.
[13] After her return from Europe, she moved back to New York City and resumed writing for magazines and continuing a series of comic articles for Town & Country about the adventures of a ne'er-do-well gatecrasher named Princess Tulip Murphy.
[14] Reviewing the book in The New Yorker, Clifton Fadiman wrote that "Miss Faulkner is Saki on a boisterous bender, Dorothy Parker gone informal to the point of madness....
Based on their combined reputations, RKO Pictures bought the movie rights to their play for $50,000, but when the stage production debuted on Broadway in February 1947, it closed after a week.
[19] Suesse decided to move to France to study composition with Boulanger and Faulkner began to struggle with alcoholism and depression, seeking treatment at several clinics.
[22] In 1958, she joined the staff of Prairie Schooner, the University of Nebraska-Lincoln's literary magazine, working alongside her colleague and companion, the poet and English professor Dr. Bernice Slote.