I once spent an afternoon in Calvary Cemetery looking for Tennessee Williams’ hard-to-find burial site in St. Louis, Missouri, his hometown.
The annual Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival is this weekend, March 25-29, marking its 40th anniversary. It brings that day in St. Louis to mind because of a fiery debate that once ricocheted at the festival.
Since the festival started (full disclosure, I have been on the board) some of Williams’ contemporaries have participated in the popular “I Remember Tennessee” panel, where a frequent comment was how much they disliked the playwright’s brother, Dakin…