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 does not...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Shapland, Jenn, 1987- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Portland, Oregon : Tin House Books, [2020]
Edition:First US edition.
Subjects:
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.