The Carson McCullers Center's Weekly We of Me

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus, Georgia native, Carson McCullers scholar, and major McCullers Center benefactor Dr. Thornton Jordan.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus, Georgia-native, Carson McCullers scholar, and major McCullers Center benefactor Dr. Thornton Jordan.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus, Georgia-native, Carson McCullers scholar, and major McCullers Center benefactor Dr. Thornton Jordan.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus State University archivist Tom Converse.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus State University archivist Tom Converse.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus State University archivist Tom Converse.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus, Georgia-based artist Bo Bartlett.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus, Georgia-born artist Bo Bartlett.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with Columbus, Georgia-born artist Bo Bartlett. 

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with Mary Dearborn, whose biography of Carson McCullers is to be published by Knopf.

This is the second of two episodes based on our interview with Mary Dearborn, whose biography of Carson McCullers is to be published by Knopf.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with Mary Dearborn, whose biography of Carson McCullers is to be published by Knopf.

This is the second of two episodes based on our interview with novelist, essayist, editor, and former McCullers Center writing fellow Melissa Pritchard Schley.

This is the first of two episodes based on our interview with novelist, essayist, editor, and former McCullers Center writing fellow Melissa Pritchard Schley.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with National Book Award finalist Jenn Shapland.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with National Book Award finalist Jenn Shapland.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with writer and archivist Jenn Shapland, whose book My Autobiography of Carson McCullers was a finalist for the National Book Award.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz.

The first episode of Season Two of the Carson McCullers Center's Weekly We of Me features a segment from our interview with Academy Award-winning actress Rachel Weisz, a devotee of Carson's work since she read The Member of the Wedding as a 13-year-old girl in London in the 1980s.

This is the second of two episodes based on our interview with quilter and former McCullers Center director Cathy Fussell and her husband, artist and folklorist Fred Fussell.

This is the first of two episodes based on our interview with quilter and former McCullers Center director Cathy Fussell and her husband, writer and folklorist Fred Fussell.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with librettist Carey Scott Wilkerson, composer Robert Chumbley, and baritone Ian Greenlaw, collaborators on an operatic treatment of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with librettist Carey Scott Wilkerson, composer Robert Chumbley, and baritone Ian Greenlaw, collaborators on an operatic treatment of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with librettist Carey Scott Wilkerson, composer Robert Chumbley, and baritone Ian Greenlaw, collaborators on an operatic treatment of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with famed Hollywood and stage actor and director Karen Allen.

This is the second of three episodes based on our interview with famed Hollywood and stage actor and director Karen Allen.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with famed Hollywood and stage actor and director Karen Allen.

This is the second of two episodes based on our interview with Columbus-based poetry slam champion, writer, actor, teacher, and community activist Jonathan Samuel Eddie.

This is the first of two episodes based on our interview with Columbus-based poetry slam champion, writer, actor, teacher, and community activist Jonathan Samuel Eddie.

This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and gay-rights activist Sarah Schulman.

This is the second of three episodes from our interview with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and gay-rights activist Sarah Schulman.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and gay-rights activist Sarah Schulman.

Episode 7 is the last of three based on our interview with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Natalia Temesgen, a native of Columbus, Georgia, who recently spent a short time living and working in the Carson McCullers House in Nyack, New York.

This week's episode is the second of three based on an interview we conducted with Columbus, Georgia-based writer, playwright, screenwriter Natalia Temesgen, who just finished a stint in the writers room for the Netflix original series "Dear White People." Natalia talks about what it's like to read and teach her hometown's famous writer, Carson McCullers.

This week's episode is the first of three based on an interview we conducted with Columbus, Georgia-based writer, playwright, screenwriter Natalia Temesgen, who just finished a stint in the writers room for the Netflix original series "Dear White People."

This week’s episode is the third and final in a series based on an interview we conducted with McCullers scholar Carlos Dews, founding director of the Carson McCullers Center and the world's leading scholar in Carson McCullers studies. Professor Dews, who edited Carson's unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, and both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers, is currently editing the selected letters. In Episode 4, Dews explains how he first came to the work of Carson McCullers while struggling with his sexual identity as an undergraduate in Texas, talks about his review of the new book on McCullers by Jenn Shapland, and reads one of his favorite passages from the McCullers novel Clock Without Hands. 

This episode is the second in a three-part series based on an interview with professor Carlos Dews, founding director of the Carson McCullers Center and the world's leading scholar in Carson McCullers studies. Professor Dews, who edited the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, and both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers, is currently editing the selected letters of Carson McCullers. In Episode 3, Nick and Carlos discuss that project, including the discovery of Carson's love letters to Marty Mann. This week's readings are from the so-called "War Letters" exchanged between Carson and Reeves McCullers in 1944 and 1945. Suzie Parker Devoe reads Carson's letter to Reeves of 21 November 1944, and Nick Norwood reads the letter to Carson Reeves wrote the following day.

For Episodes 2-4, McCullers Center director Nick Norwood interviewed the  center's founding director and the world's foremost scholar of Carson  McCullers, Dr. Carlos Dews. Professor Dews, who edited the unfinished  autobiography of Carson McCullers Illumination and Night Glare, as well as both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers,  is currently editing the selected letters of Carson McCullers. In  Episode 2, Nick and Carlos talk about the issue of race in McCullers's  work.

This first episode of the Carson McCullers Center's Weekly We of Me is an overview of the podcast and focuses on the phrase "the we of me" from the McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. The phrase, which comes from the thoughts of the book's main character, Frankie Adams, has become a symbol for the universal desire to connect with other people and to find that group of people with whom a person may feel they belong.