Columbus State University's Carson McCullers Center for Writers and Musicians has an official website at

http://www.mccullerscenter.org

where you'll find the mission statement, fellowship application materials, detailed information about McCullers' life and work, and information about how you can donate to the McCullers Center. This blog, though, is intended to give you a more casual report of day-to-day goings-on at CSU's Carson McCullers Center.

Friday, February 25, 2011

Conference Photos!

I'll post 'em as I get 'em.  Here's one of Georgios Tsarsitalidis, of Uppsala University, Sweden.  Georgios presented a paper titled "Carson McCullers' Representation of Deafness in The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter."

Saturday, February 19, 2011

Monday, February 7, 2011

Happy Birthday, Gay Talese!

The Carson McCullers Center wishes a Happy Birthday today to author Gay Talese, who with his wife Nan Talese was a guest at the Carson McCullers Center last year.  Talese, who is credited with developing "New Journalism," himself credits McCullers with having been a major influence on his own writing.

A Little Dartmouth Reunion at the McCullers House





Pictured here are Thornton Jordan and visiting poet Cleopatra Mathis, in the dining room of the Carson McCullers childhood home in Columbus.  Professor Mathis, who is the Director of the Creative Writing Program and the Frederick Sessions Beebe Professor in the English Department at Dartmouth College, was in town to give two poetry presentations sponsored by the Center in collaboration with the Georgia Poetry Circuit. Dr. Jordan, who in 2002 donated the Smith-McCullers House to Columbus State University to establish the Carson McCullers Center, is a graduate of Dartmouth.

Tuesday, February 1, 2011