Jenn Shapland discusses her National Book Award-nominated memoir My Autobiography of Carson McCullers (Tin House), a brilliantly rendered hybrid which wrestles with identity, sexuality, and creativity.
EPISODE : 4
THE INTERVIEW
Jenn Shapland discusses her National Book
Award-nominated memoir My Autobiography of
Carson McCullers (Tin House), a brilliantly
rendered hybrid which wrestles with identity,
sexuality, and creativity.
THE READING
Carson in her own words. Courtesy of the
NEA’s Big Read, actress Holly Hunter reads
from Carson’s most famous novel The Heart is
a Lonely Hunter.
Credit: Music by Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou