Excerpted from Vanessa by Dan Callahan. Copyright © 2014 by Dan Callahan. Reprinted by arrangement with Pegasus Books. All rights reserved. Support your local bookstore, or buy the book through our affiliate link at Amazon.com.  Carson McCullers’s novella The Ballad of the Sad Café is one of the weirder bits of Southern Gothic written in the last century, … Continue reading The Ballad of the Sad Café: An Excerpt from “Vanessa: The Life of Vanessa Redgrave”