My autobiography of Carson McCullers
"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. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters' language-but doe...
| Main Author: | Shapland, Jenn, 1987- (Author) |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Portland, Oregon :
Tin House Books,
2020.
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| Edition: | First US edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- Author's note
- Question
- Articulation
- Correspondence
- The soul's particular territories
- Derangement, or why I write
- Caves
- Chick-fil-A
- Tree houses and telephone booths
- That girl
- Qualifications
- A free love
- Windows
- Unforeseen events
- Becomings
- February House
- Imaginary friends
- Prove it on me blues
- Dedications
- Ambivalences
- Convalescence
- Parasites
- Homebodies
- Rules
- My rainbow youth
- Portals
- Item 8
- Items 42-45
- Items unlocated
- Womanish
- On exposure
- Conflation
- The hunt
- Semantics
- Separate bedrooms
- Androgyny
- They/them
- Confidantes
- The high line
- Threesomes
- Recliner
- Ontological destabilization
- Googling
- Preaching
- List of Carson's possible girlfriends
- Other likely lesbians
- Second marriages
- Dedications
- Fury and disaster
- In sickness
- Witch hunt
- This mad desire for travel
- Going West
- Coping mechanisms
- Seismographs
- Diagnosis
- Blue chair
- Organ
- Last love
- Not yet
- First loves
- Dream
- Matters of taste
- Dedications
- Dream
- Your name
- Forensics
- Expurgation
- Lies, secrets, and silence
- Myth mania
- Recognition
- The silencing force
- Proximity
- Myopia
- September 29, 1967
- September 29, 2016
- Love and winter
- The dead
- Dream
- Note to self
- Euphemisms.