And the tortured writer When these writers, solitary creatures of the night burning the midnight oil, seek to satisfy their nocturnal cravings, what do they seek to fill up—their grumbling stomachs, their hollow minds, their aching hearts, their restless souls? Hunger is a form of loneliness, or...
DOUBLE EXPOSURE World-renowned writer Sylvia Plath known for credited advancing the genre of confessional poetry How does one write? People ask me. Honestly, I don’t know. Maybe it’s as simple as putting words together, one after the other, but I think that devalues the work of many exceptional...
Hang back from the horrors of Covid life and take refuge in the metaphors for our larger fears, such as our fear of death or disease or isolation or life itself. Horror as a genre is built around one truth: that the world is full of fearful things. But the best horror tells us more. It tells us how...