Collected Stories of Carson McCullers, including The Member of the Wedding and The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
nationale (Free subscription) | 11/25/2009
andrew zucherman, creature (chronicle books, $60) oh, and also arranging books by color. or lack of, rather. nerd! carson mccullers. henry miller. albert camus. andrew zucherman. wallace cochran. and free postcards by sarah gottesdiener.
For The Birds (Free subscription) | 11/09/2009
by Carson McCullers The setting of “The Ballad of the Sad Café” is as much canvas as it is character, providing a fitting milieu of mud and mosquitoes for its dismal dissections of ruptured love and obsession. Carson McCullers, who burst onto the literary scene at twenty-three as something of a prodigy with her first novel “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter,” is a gifted stylist...
John Baker's Blog (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
Carson McCullers second novel opens like this: An army post in peacetime is a dull place. Things happen, but then they happen over and over again. The general plan of a fort in itself adds to the monotony – the huge concrete barracks, the neat rows of officers’ homes built one precisely like the other, the [...]
Stray Carrier Pigeon (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
I know Carson McCullers is a weird writer. I listened to The Ballad of the Sad Cafe on audio tape in high school, and was sufficiently apoplectic. So I don't know why it surprises me that I found The Member of the Wedding strange as well. Maybe it was that Sad Cafe was weird in a good way, but Wedding was just weird. Sometimes I get really annoyed with books, because I want them to be better. I'm like...
ArtsJournal (Free subscription) | 10/15/2009
A 2005 stage adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter begins and ends with speeches by a deaf-mute character - making it difficult for a deaf actor to play the role. As the play arrives in New York, deaf actors and theater groups are arguing that a "hearing actor playing a deaf character is tantamount to putting a white actor in blackface."...
New York Times (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
Deaf actors and deaf theater groups have begun to protest the artistic and casting choices in a stage adaptation of the Carson McCullers novel “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.”
THE ELLORY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 10/11/2009
THE SOUTH WILL WRITE AGAIN... Apologies for the cheap title, but I couldn't resist it! Anyway, here I am in Nashville, Country Music Capital, and I thought this morning about the South and Southern writers. I have always been a voracious reader of a certain type of literature, a type of prose that is more poetic and lyrical than the styles you might find in other types of literature, and it occurred...
cynsations (Free subscription) | 10/05/2009
Congratulations to the 2009 finalists for the Writers' League of Texas Teddy Book Award : The Underneath (Atheneum) by Kathi Appelt of College Station, Texas; Man in the Moon (Delacorte) by Dotti Enderle of Richmond, Texas; Charro Claus and the Tejas Kid (Cinco Puntos) by Xavier Garza of San Antonio, Texas; and How Not to Be Popular (Delacorte) by Jennifer Ziegler of Austin, Texas. From the promotional...
Hamster's Wheel (Free subscription) | 09/29/2009
LGBT people born today: 1955 – Ann Bancroft – US Polar Explorer / Author / Teacher 1956 – Carol Blazejowski – US Basketball 1958 – Jahna Steele – US Entertainer – Died 24th January 2008 1964 – Jeanna Fine – US Porn / Dancer 1964 – Trojan Rock – UK Porn / Producer 1965 – Boris Izaguirre – Venezuelan / Spanish Screenwriter...
Film Intuition: Review Database (Free subscription) | 09/21/2009
Part of Sony's Martini Movies* Collection Photo Slideshow Bookmark this on Delicious Print Page My first Martini was a Cosmopolitan-- the making of which unfortunately happened to coincide with the infamous Justin Timberlake/Janet Jackson Super Bowl Half-Time "wardrobe debacle." Needless to say, the bartender was preoccupied, the drink was way too strong, and that's about all I remember about...
The Internet Business Blog (Free subscription) | 09/09/2009
By Loraine Hyde In the past you had to go to a store if you wanted to rent or buy a movie. High speed internet access has now made it possible to download movies right off a movie download site. You will find just about any movie you want with a good movie download site, below is a small sample. Cuba Crossing: Hard Whitman gets to be embroiled in a structure to slaughter Fidel Castro. Filmed in Key...
Chicano Poet (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
Joyce Vandeveer by Michael Barnes of the Austin-American StatesmanThe picture prompted the initial enigma. A woman sporting short, dark hair. A cigarette. Shadowed eyes, half brooding, half smiling. Like her fastidiously painted lips.The image could have been lifted from a 1950s book-jacket portrait. A Carson McCullers. Or a Dorothy Parker. Or perhaps a Jane Bowles.Who exactly was Joyce Vandeveer
What's Left in the Church (Free subscription) | 09/03/2009
There are always lists of books purporting to be what one should read. There are also books readers love. A friend of mine sent me along a link that puts them side by side. 1. ULYSSES by James Joyce* 2. THE GREAT GATSBY by F. Scott Fitzgerald* 3. A PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST AS A YOUNG MAN by James Joyce* 4. LOLITA by Vladimir Nabokov* 5. BRAVE NEW WORLD by Aldous Huxley 6. THE SOUND AND THE FURY by William...
Chicagoist (Free subscription) | 08/14/2009
photo of Aaron Snook and Simone Roos by Johnny Knight Edward Albee’s adaptation of Carson McCullers’ novella of the same name, The Ballad of the Sad Cafe is a folktale about love, infatuation and loneliness. Signal Ensemble Theatre ’s production impressed us with its compelling and tenacious performances, but the script ultimately left too many questions unanswered. Set in a small...
Annette's Notebook (Free subscription) | 07/18/2009
Not tagged with this meme per se, but decided to answer it anyway. Fifteen books that have have been memorable for you or have impacted you in some way: Cosmos Carl Sagan The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers Into the Wild Jon Krakauer Traveling Mercies Anne Lamott A Solitary Blue Cynthia Voigt Jacob Have I Loved Katherine Patterson The Bible (especially Ecclesisastes, Psalms, Romans) A History...
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