The Village Voice: NYTW Tries Carson McCullers’s The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter is a book only a writer who drank herself to death alone on the deck of a cruise ship could have written, and she wrote it at 23. Published in 1940, it was Carson ...
Carson McCullers wrote her debut novel, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, when she was 23, which is both amazing and enraging; the vast majority of us don't get to produce a masterpiece when we're that ...
As she looks out from a photograph on the cover of a current edition of her first novel, "The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter," Carson McCullers emanates the melancholy and illnesses that plagued her ...
al.com: Trussville's Rebecca Gilman opens play 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' at New York Theatre Workshop
Trussville's Rebecca Gilman opens play 'The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter' at New York Theatre Workshop
For a delicate story about heartbreaking loneliness and the world of silence in a small Southern town in the late 1930s, Rebecca Gilman's stage adaptation of Carson McCullers' first novel, "The Heart ...
The Washington Post: Carson McCullers's Sure Aim At the Heart of Loneliness
Jake, a carnival roustabout and Communist sympathizer, lounges in a diner and grumbles, “This town’s full of freaks.” “I like freaks,” Biff, the diner’s owner, protests. So did Carson McCullers, ...
NEW YORK - It's difficult to translate a beloved novel for the stage, especially one with a lot of interior dialogue. Playwright Rebecca Gilman's adaptation of Carson McCullers' first novel, "The ...