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Day 59.3: Preliminaries
I really should write more about Carson,( Read more... )
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Day 36.3: Mick Kelly on Beauty
Suddenly Mick began hitting her thigh with her fists.( Read more... )
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Day 14.1: Reflections in a Golden Eye
Finished reading Reflections in a Golden Eye (1941).( Read more... )
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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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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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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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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.