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Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Finding the Wild Girls of Literature (and Following Them Into the Woods)

Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum Recommends Sarah Moss, Jamaica Kincaid, Carson McCullers and Others

By Kirsten Sundberg Lunstrum | January 17, 2025

The most stressful weddings found in fiction.

The most stressful weddings found in fiction.

By Brittany Allen | May 24, 2024

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

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

Anger, Joy, Resistance: Queer Readings For Pride Month

Words to “Remind Us of the Love We Share During the Rough Times to Come.”

By Literary Hub | June 24, 2022

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter">Richard Wright on Carson McCullers’ <emThe Heart is a Lonely Hunter">

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

“McCullers rises above the pressures of her environment and embraces white and black humanity in one sweep.”

By Book Marks | February 22, 2022

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

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

Big Table Podcast">This Week from the Big Table Podcast

By Big Table | May 24, 2021

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Outsiders, Eccentrics, and Misfits: A Reading List

By Claire Fuller | May 19, 2021

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

By Emily Temple | August 21, 2020

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

By Emily Temple | February 19, 2020

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

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

Jenn Shapland on What She Found in the Writer's Archives

By Jenn Shapland | February 18, 2020

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

Searching for Queerness in the Corners of History

On Jenn Shapland and "Hunting Lesbians"

By Catie Disabato | February 7, 2020

On Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion">Googling Literary Lesbians: <brOn Carson McCullers and the Erotics of Incompletion">

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

Sarah Heying Asks "The Sappho Question"

By Sarah Heying | February 4, 2020

On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

On Being Mistaken for the Other Elizabeth Ames

A Progressive Novelist or a Free Marketeer?

By Elizabeth Ames | September 5, 2019

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

11 Legendary Literary Parties We're Sad to Have Missed

Booze, Books, and Oh Yes, Bad Behavior

By Emily Temple | July 18, 2019

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

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

This Series Isn't Even Half Way Done

By Emily Temple | October 19, 2018

What Your New Roommate's Favorite Book Says About Them

What Your New Roommate's Favorite Book Says About Them

More Revealing Than Their Star Sign (With Your Luck, Triple Scorpio)

By Emily Temple | September 4, 2018

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