USA-Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
Story
We will read McCullers’ astonishing story, A Rock. A Tree. A Cloud. PDF
Themes
- What we might call weirdness in some people…wrongly!!
- How to Know someone has Figured it All Out
- How to Live
- Bad Places and Bad Habits and Bad People…etc.
Notes and References
Songs for the Story !!
Sadly: https://edition.cnn.com/2024/02/06/entertainment/toby-keith-death/index.html
And maybe this one…
Additional Readings
The Arrested Development of Carson McCullers. https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/03/04/carson-mccullers-a-life-mary-v-dearborn-book-review. “A writer lives differently from people who don’t write.” Of course.
“Pretend it’s a Seed, OK?” https://youtu.be/wKbUVxjh0mg
Writing Prompts
- “So long as you learn, it doesn’t matter who you learn from, does it?”
- On being scolded for being in Bad Company
- Life Lessons from Graffiti?
- On seeing Artists and Designers everywhere…(bah!)
- A Strange Transformational Hobby…
- On being a Gig Worker