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Why is it that some of the greatest works of literature have been produced by writers in the grip of alcohism, an addiction that cost them personal happiness and caused harm to those who loved them?In The Trip to Echo Spring, Olivia Laing examines the link between creativity and alcohol through the work and lives of six extraordinary men: F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, John Berryman, John Cheever, and Raymond Carver. All...
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Duke University Press
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2020.
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"HOW TO GO MAD WITHOUT LOSING YOUR MIND questions long-standing Eurocentric accounts of psychopathology and describes the way art and madness connect in Black life. La Marr Jurelle Bruce uses a method of radical compassion, or radical care, to read the actions of Black artists and creatives. He seeks to understand their motives not simply as individual pathology but as sociocultural event and effect which makes itself evident as Black radical creativity....
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