Hilary Mantel’s experience of psychiatry
In her own words: Included in the AFTERWORDS of this memoir:
Tag: Memoirs
unlearning things
A passage from this novel by Hanya Yanagihara:
Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender
I recently read Father and Son by the writer and poet Edmund Gosse. This ‘memoir’ was written in 1907 and subtitled ‘a study of two temperaments.’ I was reminded of … Continue reading Told with an evident truth as unflinching as it is tender
The land of lost content
My great-aunt, Sally Scott, died earlier this year just short of her 82nd birthday. By letter, phone, and later also by e-mail, we shared years of correspondence. Sally was such … Continue reading The land of lost content