Short Essay: “No Lonelier Place on Earth” (On Jake Blount in “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”)

As perhaps the most pitifully lonely and isolated character in Carson McCullers’ 1940 novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, the socialist-revolutionary-turned-carnival-worker Jake Blount’s most notable acts are ranting and… Read more Short Essay: “No Lonelier Place on Earth” (On Jake Blount in “The Heart is a Lonely Hunter”) →