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Madness: A Bipolar Life

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Sep 26, 2008 1 related
        

Bipolar disorder and literary genius are often linked, the disorder considered a brilliant madness that produces great writers. Famous examples are Ernest Hemingway, Sylvia Plath, and Kay Redfield Jamison, who wrote the...

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A Memoir of Schizophrenia - TIME

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Sep 24, 2008 1 related
        

"My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy," says Elyn Saks, the author of The Center Cannot Hold (Hyperion). Saks, 52, has schizophrenia, a chronic brain disorder that affects one in a hundred Americans....

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On the Subject of Literary Suicides in General and David Foster Wallace’s Suicide in Particular

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Sep 24, 2008 1 related
        

It appears that last Friday, on the 12th of September 2008, writer David Foster Wallace, best known for his 1,000 plus page novel Infinite Jest, hanged himself in his home in Claremont, California. On a human level, though...

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Universities to attract leading US researchers

telegraph.co.uk
Sep 24, 2008 3 related
        

The best postgraduate students and academics from the United States will carry out research in Britain under new plans. By Graeme Paton Education Editor Universities including Bristol, Leeds, Glasgow, Warwick and King's...

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How to write memoirs and biographies: Writers Midge Gillies and Alexander Masters on the essence...

guardian.co.uk
Sep 23, 2008
        

The contents page of a biography or memoir will give you an idea of the structure the author has used. The occasional short chapter can bring variety to the pace of the book. A year in the life of ... Another approach...

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Final chapters

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Sep 18, 2008
        

By now, the most-read piece by David Foster Wallace must be the text of the speech he delivered to the graduates of Kenyon College in 2005, where he stressed the importance of staying “conscious and alive in the adult...

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On the state of writing

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Sep 18, 2008 10 related
        

English professor Margaret Soltan discusses the recent death of writer David Foster Wallace and American literature today by Ani Mamourian Hatchet Reporter In light of the suicide of writer David Foster Wallace, we spoke...

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Poetry, Bow Ties, Station Wagons, and the Scholarly Life

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Sep 16, 2008
        

By Julio Alves Professor Pettit was an enigma. He wasn’t sure he was going to write the Austen paper, he said, because he was already working on another paper for Professor Pettit, and, anyway, Professor Pettit’s unique...

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Innocence and Experience

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Sep 15, 2008
        

Illustrations by Eric Hanson 1 Keith Richards is evacuated from suburban London to escape German buzz bombs, 1944. 23 Neil Young joins Stephen Stills, David Crosby, and Graham Nash to form Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young,...

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Ramblings from Hell

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Sep 16, 2008
        

By S. Campbell ProehlSTAFF COLUMNISTLast Wednesday my poetry professor gave me an assignment: Keep a poetry journal, write a poem a day, or write poems at different times of the day. See what happens in the pages over...

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