![]() ![]() ![]() The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees the way McCullers's story has become a way to articulate something about herself. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers review identity parade Jenn Shapland dismisses previous biographers of Carson McCullers, pictured here in 1961, for having ‘erased the writer’s. More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, will be published for the first time. (Tin House Books, 266 pages, 22.95.) This winter, if you read just one book that seems to be a biography but turns into an autobiography. And so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers's life: she wades through the therapy transcripts she stays at McCullers's childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza she relives McCullers's days at her beloved Yaddo. ![]() ![]() Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language-but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her. Summary: "While working as an intern in the archives at the Harry Ransom Center, Jenn Shapland encounters the love letters of Carson McCullers and a woman named Annemarie-letters that are tender, intimate, and unabashed in their feelings. ![]()
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