Unhappy Endings
Hilton Als on the writer Carson McCullers: her tumultuous personal life, her professional ambition, and her penetrating novels.
"'I loved Ludie and he was the first man I loved. Therefore, I had to go and copy myself forever afterward. What I did was to marry off little pieces of Ludie whenever I come across them.'" — Berenice to Frankie in The Member of the Wedding