![]() The results reveal something entirely new not only about this one remarkable, walleyed life, but about the way we tell queer love stories. ![]() As Shapland reckons with the expanding and collapsing distance between her and McCullers, she sees how McCullers’s story has become a way to articulate something about herself. Shapland recognizes herself in the letters’ language-but does not see McCullers as history has portrayed her.Īnd so, Shapland is compelled to undertake a recovery of the full narrative and language of McCullers’s life: she wades through the therapy transcripts she stays at McCullers’s childhood home, where she lounges in her bathtub and eats delivery pizza she relives McCullers’s days at her beloved Yaddo. ![]() 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. ![]()
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