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2024-07-13 09:29 pm

Day 59.3: Preliminaries

I really should write more about Carson,Read more... )
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2024-07-04 09:54 pm

Day 50.3: I Want to Hug Carson

I want to hug Carson,Read more... )
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2024-07-04 06:01 pm

Day 50.1: On Carson McCuller's Overall-ness

Let me say this now: Carson McCullers was a flaming mess.Read more... )

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2024-06-20 11:54 pm

Day 36.3: Mick Kelly on Beauty

Suddenly Mick began hitting her thigh with her fists.Read more... )
 
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2024-05-29 08:09 pm

Day 14.1: Reflections in a Golden Eye

Finished reading Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941).Read more... )
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2024-05-26 08:08 pm

Day 11.2: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter - Finished (& More Biography Reading)

Will write more tomorrow because I am literally nodding off,Read more... )
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2024-05-21 09:27 pm

Day 6.2: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter and Narration

I'm noticing Carson's narrative style shifts more and more now. Read more... )
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2024-05-19 09:46 am

Day 4.1: Carson McCullers and Summeriness

I think Carson McCuller's writing is summery. I mean that in two senses.

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2024-05-18 02:59 pm

Day 3.1: The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Mick Kelly

I've been re-reading The Heart is a Lonely Hunter as part of Carson Month, and Mick Kelly's isolation and grotesqueness have leapt out at me.

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2024-05-16 11:00 am

Day 1.2: Readings, 3rd Week May

Carson McCullers month! My favorite author, among my first literary loves (my first: Terry Pratchett, my second: Arundhati Roy, my third: Richard Yates). Recently, a biography came out, and I've been slowly going through all her fiction, apace with my biography-reading.
  • Carson McCullers: A Life, Mary V. Dearborn, Knopf, 2024.
  • Wunderkind (Collected Short Stories), Carson McCullers, Penguin, 2013.
  • The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers, Mariner Books, 1940.
  • Carson McCullers: Stories, Plays & Other Writings, Carson McCullers, Library of America, 2017.
Carson shines even brighter this time around.