Books
Jenn Shapland’s “My Autobiography of Carson McCullers” and Mark Doty’s “What Is the Grass,” about Walt Whitman, are hybrid memoir-biographies.
April 10, 2020
FIRST ENCOUNTERS: A Book of Memorable Meetings by Nancy Caldwell Sorel and Edward Sorel (Alfred A.
Jan. 29, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
More than 60 years after Carson McCullers won acclaim with her first novel, “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter,” a stage version will have its world premiere in Atlanta next week.
March 16, 2005
Television
Television review: Flaws aside, the adaptation of Carson McCullers’ 1946 novel, with Alfre Woodard and Anna Paquin, proves worthwhile.
Jan. 29, 1997
Collected Stories by Carson McCullers (Houghton Mifflin: $16.95; 392 pages) Nakedly autobiographical, Carson McCullers’ novels, plays and stories were wrung out of personal anguish.
Aug. 21, 1987
Jenn Shapland’s essays in ‘Thin Skin’ take on nuclear waste, colonialism and gender expectations without fear or compromise, making her book the anti-’Oppenheimer.’
Aug. 15, 2023
Movies
Carson McCullers’ slim literary output has been the occasion for at least two wonderful films: the 1952 “Member of the Wedding” and the 1967 “Reflections in a Golden Eye.”
May 10, 1991
“It is an inward play and the conflicts are inward conflicts,” Carson McCullers once said of her stage adaptation of “The Member of the Wedding.”
Oct. 22, 1986
Every writer has heard “rules of writing”: “Show, don’t tell”; “provide a sympathetic character”; “write about what you know.”
Dec. 29, 1996
A Girl Could Stand Up A Novel; Leslie Marshall; Grove: 384 pp., $24
Aug. 1, 2003