Carson McCullers

Literature’s Lonely Hunter: On the “Sad, Happy Life” of Carson McCullers

Mary V. Dearborn Remembers an American Literary Champion of the Outsider

 
By Mary V. Dearborn  February 28, 2024
Happy Pride

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

By Literary Hub  June 24, 2022
Classic Reviews

Richard Wright on Carson McCullers’ The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By Book Marks  February 22, 2022
Big Table

Jenn Shapland on Confronting Her Own Sexuality to Tell Carson McCullers’ Story

By Big Table  May 24, 2021
Misfits

Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

By Claire Fuller  May 19, 2021
The Hub

Did you know that Truman Capote discovered Ray Bradbury? (Well, sort of.)

By Emily Temple  August 21, 2020
The Hub

In which a very blasé Carson McCullers gets interviewed on a ship.

By Emily Temple  February 19, 2020
Archives

Cataloguing Carson McCullers’ Clothes: Long Coats, Vests, and Gender Fluidity

By Jenn Shapland  February 18, 2020
Queer Lit

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

By Catie Disabato  February 7, 2020
Criticism

Googling Literary Lesbians:
On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion

By Sarah Heying  February 4, 2020
Self-Reflection

On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

By Elizabeth Ames  September 5, 2019
Literary History

11 Legendary Literary Parties We’re Sad to Have Missed

By Emily Temple  July 18, 2019
Feature

A Century of Reading: The 10 Books That Defined the 1940s

By Emily Temple  October 19, 2018
Feature

What Your New Roommate’s Favorite Book Says About Them

By Emily Temple  September 4, 2018
What to Read

10 Little-Known Children’s Books by Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  August 23, 2018
Feature

20 Notoriously Underrated Writers You Should Be Reading

By Emily Temple  June 5, 2018
Feature

Read 20 Famous Authors’ Very First Published Short Stories

By Emily Temple  May 29, 2018
Design

50 Pulp Cover Treatments of Classic Works of Literature

By Emily Temple  May 2, 2018
Archives

Carson McCullers on Suicide, Psychiatry and the Mind of the Artist

By Emily Temple  September 29, 2017
Archives

14 Curious Telegrams from (and to) Famous Writers

By Emily Temple  June 15, 2017
What to Read

10 Debut Novels That Are Also Their Authors’ Masterpieces

By Emily Temple  April 12, 2017
Excerpts

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

By Lit Hub Excerpts  February 17, 2017
Essay

The Search for Home in American Fiction

By Sarah Domet  November 2, 2016
Feature

The Ultimate Literary Ten-Course Meal

By Evan Hanczor  August 17, 2016
Q and A

Five Books in My Life: Megan Abbott

By Megan Abbott  July 26, 2016
Novelists

Don DeLillo on the Life of a Book

By Don DeLillo  May 3, 2016
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