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Thursday, February 19, 2015

Gin, Cigarettes, and Desperation: The Carson McCullers Diet



Carson liked sherry with her tea, brandy with her coffee, and her purse with a large flask of whiskey. Between books, when she was neither famous nor monied, she claimed she existed almost exclusively on gin, cigarettes, and desperation for weeks at a time...

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