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- "Ways of Seeing: THE PORTRAIT and REFLECTIONS IN A GOLDEN EYE", reviewed by Stedman Mays
- Frankie is a Fluff, by Julia S. Gomez
- Carson McCullers, by Gaële Chojnowicz.
- Loneliness and Love, by Julie Bihn.
- Making Dilemmanade , by Lyla J. Koch.
- An Ironic Parable of Fascism?, by Jeff Schneider (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
- Conformity in Reflections In A Golden Eye, by Jeff Schneider
- Evil and Violence, by Jeremie Baruch
- Frankie Addams: A View of Adolescent Development, by Gwendolyn J. Couch
- Carson McCullers: A Life of Confusion, by Kelly Geissler
- Mick Kelly: Dressing the Part, by J. Danz (Adobe Acrobat PDF)
Visitor Comments:
"I consider Carson McCullers, in her novels and novella, to be the greatest American writer of the 20th century. Certainly no novelist that comes to mind explored the human condition of loneliness, despair, and the search for love as sensitively as she did. Her novels are ever fresh for me, a source of amazement." --David Vardeman"All that I am learning about Carson McCullers has been perceived, in advance, by the emotion I feel when looking at her picture. I am at once open to her loveliness and empathy for the lives she has created. I am deeply moved." --HHS (remarking on the jacket picture of the author of The Heart is a Lonely Hunter)
Carol Sheredos shares her memories of the hospital stay that influenced Carson McCullers' final work: "A Hospital Christmas Eve."
"When I taught at the University of Iowa in 1970-71, I was struck by a poem written by the sister of a teaching assistant in the French and Italian Department. The author of the poem was Joanne Dyhrkopp:
FUNNY WE KNOW NOTHING
ABOUT LOSING SOMEONE
UNTIL THEY ARE WALKING AWAY
UNTIL THEY ARE GONE
WHEN THE VOID BECOMES REAL
WHEN ALL THE SILENT BEAUTY
IS LOUD WITH PASSING
AND ALL THE LOVE SONGS EVER WRITTEN
BECOME MERELY WORDS
WORDS SPOKEN IN HASTE
NEVER TIME TO STOP AND CARE
NO MOMENTS TO GIVE
UNTIL THE MOMENT IS PASSED.
--Joanne Dyhrkopp
[written after seeing the movie, "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter",
based on the novel by Carson McCullers]
This poem, and another written by her, both posted on her sister's
corkboard in the teaching assistants' common office, has been with me
for more than thirty years. I am still moved by the poem, even though
i have not yet seen the movie, nor read the novel. Both are on my agenda."
--Anthony (Tony) Bouchard
"Her exquisite sensitivity has stopped me several times as I progress through this novel. I find myself wondering how she managed to cope in the world with such depth and understanding of the human condition." -- D. Lewis,Ê Oakland, CA
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