Open Book (Free subscription) | 06/27/2008
1. First line title courtesy of the Carson McCullers book, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter. I selected it because I've been feeling a bit mute here of late, and I prefer - always - to believe I'm not alone....
Eye Level (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Anna Deavere Smith Anna Deavere Smith gave the final talk in the American Pictures Distinguished Lecture Series. Smith spoke about a Ruth Orkin photo, Member of the Wedding, Opening Night, Ethel Waters, Carson McCullers, and Julie Harris, New York City,...
My Tragic Right Hip (Free subscription) | 04/25/2008
1. One should not drink three beers and then scream "mouse" in a crowded restaurant. It's not that there wasn't a mouse (there was; he scurried) but it could have upset people who would be less than thrilled about said rodent in the same place where they're eating. Hence the hushing and talking-to by management. 2. Edit while intoxicated. It makes notation quite messy, although does inspire a feeling...
Fair Proxy Web (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
Note Books - Shelley Short The Note Books series features musicians discussing their literary side. Past contributors have included John Darnielle, John Vanderslice, and others. Shelley Short's new album Water for the Day is filled with intimate yet powerful lyrics and simple arrangements that dutifully frame the poetry of the songs. Surrounded by talented musicians, Short's voice [...]
Largehearted Boy (Free subscription) | 04/22/2008
The Note Books series features musicians discussing their literary side. Past contributors have included John Darnielle, John Vanderslice, and others. Shelley Short's new album Water for the Day is filled with intimate yet powerful lyrics and simple arrangements that...
Cincinnati Enquirer (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
Daniel Handler will be in town Tuesday to discuss his "suspicious activities as a writer" and the 13 books that chronicle the lives of Sunny, Violet and Klaus Baudelaire.
Brit Lit Blogs (Free subscription) | 03/25/2008
Carson McCullers: another in the long line of writers I’ve heard so much about that I feel I’ve read them. My sight-unseen impression of McCullers is a sort of gentler Flannery O’Connor: Southern Gothic, loners, absurdity, not so many gorings. What better opportunity to test my ignorance than with the reissue of three of her novels in Penguin Modern Classics this month: her most famous, The Heart...
Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Republic (Free subscription) | 03/22/2008
For the past three months my fiction reading has all been taking place in the above setting. In the spirit of David Lodge's game 'Humiliation', I have to put my hand up to missing out on Faulkner until now, my 20th century American fiction reading being largely focused on Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Bellow and Roth. So, imagine the unconfined delight at finding a new author for whom admiration is far too...
PR News Wire (Free subscription) | 03/13/2008
ATLANTA, March 13 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The rich historic culture of Columbus, Ga. will be showcased during The Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation's 35th Annual Meeting & Ramble which starts Friday, April 4 and concludes midday Sunday, April 6. During these three days, Trust members, friends, and others interested in saving and preserving Georgia's historic places will "Discover Columbus" as...
Polyolbion (Free subscription) | 03/11/2008
Saturday's Guardian review was the best in a long while, I thought. Partly because there was plenty of poetry-related material, although the long article on Carson McCullers was probably my favourite piece, having long been a fan of Ballad of the Sad Café and The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter. This piece from Sean O’Brien was thought-provoking – it has certainly sparked debate at the Poets On Fire forum...
Isak (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
Author Ali Smith sings the song of Carson McCullers (The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, et. al.) in an extensive profile in The Guardian. "The formal risks she takes are thrilling and exhilarating. To some extent her style is always...
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
"... vain, querulous and a genius" "She needed a certain amount of alcohol in her system to function creatively" "we know from your first book that you're a nigger-lover, and we know from this one that you're queer. We don't like queers and nigger-lovers in this town." What others have said about American author Carson McCullers who is profiled in this excellent piece by Ali Smith in the Guardian ....
3quarksdaily (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
There is a great deal of sweetness in the prevalent vision of McCullers as the poet of haunting oddbods, the laureate of American loneliness, the gifted bard of adolescent girls. But any reader of McCullers with a half-open eye knows...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 03/08/2008
With her portraits of oddbods and adolescent girls, Carson McCullers has captured the hearts of generations of readers. Just don't be fooled by her apparent innocence, writes Ali Smith
Dispatches from Tanganyika (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008
I miss London, Liverpool, and all of Australia, even the parts I haven't been to yet. As if I could contemplate that plane ride. Maybe if they did like when Carson McCullers visited Ireland toward the end of her life, taking seats out of the plane and wheeling in a big bed ... of course she had money, though I've never quite understood how ... not that she wasn't great, but she wasn't very prolific....
