This is the last of three episodes based on our interview with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and gay-rights activist Sarah Schulman.

This is the second of three episodes from our interview with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and gay-rights activist Sarah Schulman.

This is the first of three episodes based on our interview with novelist, playwright, screenwriter, and gay-rights activist Sarah Schulman.

Episode 7 is the last of three based on our interview with award-winning playwright and screenwriter Natalia Temesgen, a native of Columbus, Georgia, who recently spent a short time living and working in the Carson McCullers House in Nyack, New York.

This week's episode is the second of three based on an interview we conducted with Columbus, Georgia-based writer, playwright, screenwriter Natalia Temesgen, who just finished a stint in the writers room for the Netflix original series "Dear White People." Natalia talks about what it's like to read and teach her hometown's famous writer, Carson McCullers.

This week's episode is the first of three based on an interview we conducted with Columbus, Georgia-based writer, playwright, screenwriter Natalia Temesgen, who just finished a stint in the writers room for the Netflix original series "Dear White People."

This week’s episode is the third and final in a series based on an interview we conducted with McCullers scholar Carlos Dews, founding director of the Carson McCullers Center and the world's leading scholar in Carson McCullers studies. Professor Dews, who edited Carson's unfinished autobiography, Illumination and Night Glare, and both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers, is currently editing the selected letters. In Episode 4, Dews explains how he first came to the work of Carson McCullers while struggling with his sexual identity as an undergraduate in Texas, talks about his review of the new book on McCullers by Jenn Shapland, and reads one of his favorite passages from the McCullers novel Clock Without Hands. 

This episode is the second in a three-part series based on an interview with professor Carlos Dews, founding director of the Carson McCullers Center and the world's leading scholar in Carson McCullers studies. Professor Dews, who edited the unfinished autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, and both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers, is currently editing the selected letters of Carson McCullers. In Episode 3, Nick and Carlos discuss that project, including the discovery of Carson's love letters to Marty Mann. This week's readings are from the so-called "War Letters" exchanged between Carson and Reeves McCullers in 1944 and 1945. Suzie Parker Devoe reads Carson's letter to Reeves of 21 November 1944, and Nick Norwood reads the letter to Carson Reeves wrote the following day.

For Episodes 2-4, McCullers Center director Nick Norwood interviewed the  center's founding director and the world's foremost scholar of Carson  McCullers, Dr. Carlos Dews. Professor Dews, who edited the unfinished  autobiography of Carson McCullers Illumination and Night Glare, as well as both volumes of the Library of America's The Complete Works of Carson McCullers,  is currently editing the selected letters of Carson McCullers. In  Episode 2, Nick and Carlos talk about the issue of race in McCullers's  work.

This first episode of the Carson McCullers Center's Weekly We of Me is an overview of the podcast and focuses on the phrase "the we of me" from the McCullers novel The Member of the Wedding. The phrase, which comes from the thoughts of the book's main character, Frankie Adams, has become a symbol for the universal desire to connect with other people and to find that group of people with whom a person may feel they belong.