The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, Carson McCullers - July 28, 2025

 

We'll meet at Kathy's house on July 28 to discuss The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers.

Supplemental materials:

• Character list/map from Oprah's Book club
• Discussion questions, Reading Group Guide
• "A Connoisseur of Yearning," a biography of Carson McCullers, New York Review of Books (2020)
• "The Closeting of Carson McCullers," The Paris Review (2020)
• "What Carson McCullers Knew About Cotton Mills and Misery ," column by Nick Norwood for Library of America (2017)
• "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter," poem by Fiona McLeod (aka William Sharp) that inspired the title for the McCullers novel