Carson McCullers Interview with Tennessee Williams (1954)

[@jubalcalif9100]

THANK YOU so very much for sharing this bodacious "blast from the past" with us ! What a sheer delight & joy to listen to both Ms McCullers and Mr Williams. Those rich Southern accents flow like thick molasses & I could listen to them all day long....or all night too, for that matter !

[@_chary990]

Oh yes her voice is such a treat to hear... Gentle and precise

[@jubalcalif9100]

@@_chary990 "Gentle & precise". Exactly ! Well said & well put !

[@JessicaWade-p7i]

Thank you 😢❤😢😊

[@annabagwell7965]

Thank you with all my heart.

[@LordOfElderon]

i just finished the heart is a lonely hunter; i love the love in ballad of the sad cafe the most. im glad each part of carson is being found.

[@billdelaney407]

heartfelt. thank you

[@daviddemille1586]

Clock Without Hands is an underappreciated novel by Carson. If you are a McCullers fan, it's definitely worth your time. Intriguing book and I believe her last.

[@_chary990]

Wonderful!

[@jubalcalif9100]

I have a notion to second THAT emotion !

[@richardrussell6861]

What's intriguing is that Carson's voice is authoritative. She sounds like a recording I heard of Virginia Woolf: every word is deliberate and perfectly selected.

[@LilliansDaughter-sh6py]

I love her laugh

[@marylove9507]

Im so glad this recording exists! They have such a cute queer reporte.

[@daviddemille1586]

Few writers of prose have Carson's narrative tone. It's arresting and irresistible.

[@PeterShieldsukcatstripey]

Oh my gosh first words so true

[@pinkmule6921]

This is amazing. Could you tell me where you sourced it - do you have the full recording anywhere or know how to locate it? I have a transcript of a similar lecture she and Tennessee gave and would love to see if this one is the same. Any info would be hugely appreciated, thanks!

[@guyy23]

Sure no problem. I got this recording from the Weekly We of Me Podcast run by The Carson McCullers Centre for Writers and Musicians- and I think they got it from the Harry Ransom Center archives; unfortunately, most of the material there isn't digital, so as much as I would love to direct you to a huge archive of interviews, I have to admit this is actually screen recorded off Spotify lol. The specific episode is 2:2: Interview with Rachel Weisz-- The Poetry of Otherness, and they talk a little about the context- apparently it was from a talk 1954 May 8 at the 92nd street Y poetry centre New York that Carson was booked to do alone but brought along Tennessee Williams with some cocktails to calm her nerves. The podcast is really great and I recommend giving it a listen. The Carlos Dewes and Bo Bartlett episodes are my personal favourites. Hope this helped :)

[@ecehanalioglu916]

💞

[@deloreswilson1798]

She looked like a child but had an elderly, southern woman's voice.🤔

[@jubalcalif9100]

Yes indeed.

[@deloreswilson1798]

Being a writer I would've liked to have had an audience with her.We would've became fast friends.There was something endearing about her demeanor.A sadness in spite of the laughter and wry humor.🤔

[@moose_tracks_]

that picture is of her in her 20s (?), whereas in this interview she is about 40

[@sclogse1]

A bit hard to hear on a phone. Will deskttop later. Her Reflections novel brought back some military experiences of mine. Nothing as incredible as her story, but there was decadence in military couples. People miserable but acting full.of themselves. Cheating in marriages, sullenness, anger, games...I was just on the edge. That was close enough.