Pulp Rag: Hunting the lonely heart with Carson McCullers

The actual writing is what you live for.
—Raymond Chandler

Let’s talk about plotting and Point-Of-View.

Carson McCullers was only twenty-three when she published The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, her classic story of the fragility of human connection—nearly a child prodigy.

Within the amorphous struggle to understand life, as portrayed through WAY more protagonists than most novels can handle, McCullers’ structure is of necessity complex but crystalline. . .

Read the full essay on Pulp Rag.