Unholy ghost writers on depression
Unholy Ghost is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, Unholy Ghost includes many voices...
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Perennial,
2002, ©2001.
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| Edition: | 1st Perennial ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction / Kay Redfield Jamison
- A delicious placebo / Virginia Heffernan
- Toys in the attic : an ars poetica under the influence / Chase Twichell
- Bodies in the basement : an ars poetica with attitude Russell Banks
- One cheer for melancholy / Susanna Kaysen
- Heaven and nature / Edward Hoagland
- Poodle bed / Darcey Steinke
- From Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen / Larry McMurtry
- Noontime / Lauren Slater
- Fading to gray / Lee Stringer
- From Darkness visible / William Styron
- Strands / Rose Styron
- An unwelcome career / David Karp
- Melancholy and the muse / Ann Beattie
- Ghost in the house / Donald Hall
- Writing the wrongs of identity / Meri Nana-Ama Danquah
- On living behind bars / Nancy Mairs
- From The savage god / A. Alvarez
- Planet No / Lesley Dormen
- A melancholy of mine own / Joshua Wolf Shenk
- The legacy / Martha Manning
- Wish you were here / Nell Casey
- A better place to live / Maud Casey.
