my autobiography of carson mccullers review

You barely have to even read the Wikipedia page to be like, Oh, that’s interesting. Daphne du Maurier, who wrote it, was almost certainly a lesbian. I just read the book Rebecca for the first time. There are a ton of writers that this sort of thing continually happens to.

Why can’t they really just come out and say the word lesbian? Like those obituaries you mention that said, 'Lesbian writer, Susan Sontag.' Why does it have to be so hidden in this other language? ( laughter) That’s all they’re trying to say. The title of the book has the word “renegade” in it, and the review is hinting the whole time that this writer is some renegade figure, and there was actually a good post the other day by Eileen Myles in response to that being like, Renegade equals dyke. The review does talk about the fact that she was a lesbian, but it’s at the very bottom of the article. JS Most recently, there was a review of the new biography about Louise Fitzhugh, the author of Harriet the Spy. Can you think of other fairly recent examples where something like that has happened to female writers or academics? Meanwhile, gay and lesbian news organizations announced, 'Lesbian writer Susan Sontag has died.' This speaks to the importance of your book. They’d been together for something like fifteen years. I’m just now reminded of when her obituaries came out-2004, I think it was- The New York Times and the LA Times never once used the word “lesbian” or even acknowledged her sexuality or her partners. Jeannie VanascoI see Benjamin Moser’s Sontag biography on your shelf. Shapland and I talked over Zoom-she in Santa Fe, and I in Baltimore-towards the end of 2020, shortly before her book’s paperback release. Despite having to re-write swaths of the book, Shapland preserved McCullers’s voice by using the techniques she learned as a translator. But shortly before the book went to press, the McCullers estate told Shapland that she could not quote from the transcripts, telegrams, and certain letters. (McCullers’s identity as a lesbian had long been dismissed by many scholars.) Months later, she secured McCullers’s therapy transcripts, which support the fact that McCullers was a lesbian. Shapland started writing it after finding―in the Ransom Center Archives where she interned during graduate school―love letters between McCullers and another woman. My Autobiography of Carson McCullers describes Shapland and Carson McCullers’s coming-of-age stories as writers, lesbians, and chronically ill people. While I crave a follow-up called “The Case of the Missing Story of the Missing Cat,” a meta exploration of how she became a writer, her critically acclaimed debut book, My Autobiography of Carson McCullers(Tin House) accomplishes that and more (sans feline). Jenn Shapland’s writing career began in the fourth grade when an acting company performed her award-winning mystery story, “The Case of the Missing Cat.” Unfortunately, she no longer has it.

My autobiography of carson mccullers review