Best not to forget the dangers of illness — which is to say the advantages. There are real advantages to getting sick and staying sick. You get all the attention. People dote. People care. They bring food and gifts. And all of this is easily confused with love. But… It’s a trap! A person can soon become easily committed to […]
Tag: Books
Turning Identity into Gold
If there is one academic book out there truly inspired by Whitman’s famous “I am large, I contain multitudes,” then this is it: Authorship as Alchemy by David Glenn Kropf. A brutal lit-crit read, but the concept is simple: What if writers (what if each one of us) were not just a mere single person, but multitudes? Not just woman […]
