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...younger, from James Baldwin to Jean Genet. They all had an influence on me; I think Lorca had the biggest influence. Dostoyevsky had a tremendous influence on me. When I was growing up, we didn’t read female writers, they weren’t in print, including Virginia Woolf, including anyone that you might take for granted and read today. We didn’t have them to read. I think the only woman writer that I read in high school was George Eliot, and it was her worst book, Silas Marner. So I didn?...
...Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer, psychologist Katherine Dalsimer explores the relationship between mental illness and artistic genius by putting Virgina Woolf on a psychiatric “couch.” The link between madness and genius has recently become a topic of national attention, especially as this year’s Oscar race focuses on A Beautiful Mind, the story of the schizophrenic, Nobel Prize-winning mathematician John Nash...
...creative power and that their extraordinary capabilities can act as a form of therapy. In A Beautiful Mind, for instance, Nash claims to “solve” his schizophrenia with the same part of his brain that he uses to solve mathematical puzzles. In her psychoanalysis of Virginia Woolf, Dalsimer provides a thoughtful, elegant exploration of the idea that a creative outlet can enable an artist to escape her inner life...
...Virginia Woolf: Becoming a Writer
Several previous Murphy assistants have moved on to more prominent coaching ranks, and Tall will have an opportunity to prove himself against W. Michigan opponents like Virginia Tech and Michigan. He already proved himself at Harvard, having won the Gridiron Club’s 2001 Assistant Coach of the Year award in January...