Carlos Dews

Illumination and Night Glare: The Unfinished Autobiography of Carson McCullers
More than thirty years after it was written, the autobiography of Carson McCullers, Illumination and Night Glare, is published for the first time. McCullers--one of the most gifted writers of her generation, author of The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, The Member of the Wedding, Reflections in a Golden Eye, and The Ballad of the Sad Café--died of a stroke at the age of fifty before finishing this, her last manuscript. Editor Carlos L. Dews has faithfully brought her story back to life, complete with never-before-published letters between McCullers and her husband Reeves, and an outline of her most famous novel, The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter.

Carson McCullers: The Complete Novels
When The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter was published in 1940, Carson McCullers was instantly recognized as one of the most promising writers of her generation. The novels that followed established her as a master of Southern Gothic. The Library of America collects her complete novels in an unprecedented single-volume edition that reveals the breadth and intensity of McCullers' achievement.

Out in the South
An absorbing collection of writings about gay and lesbian life in the South.

In this book gays and lesbians from the Deep South to East Texas and Appalachia speak from vivid personal experience and turn an analytical eye on the South and its culture. Some contributors examine the power of traditional Southern attitudes toward race and religion, and consider the "don't ask, don't tell" attitude about homosexuality in some communities (the "public secret"). Other contributors show how gay culture is thriving in the form of women's festivals, gay bars, and unusual networks like that of Asian and Pacific Islanders in Atlanta.

Out in the South is organized into sections that focus on a central metaphor of space and location. This grounds the book in the sense of the South as a special region and in the inside/outside dilemma faced by many gay and lesbian Southerners as they negotiate their place in an often-inhospitable homeland.

This Fine Place So Far From Home: Stories of Academics from the Working Class
"A collection of essays by faculty members and several graduate students, this book provides [a] glimpse of the class system in the United States and how it plays out in colleges and universities....[This] is a moving book, beautifully written."