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Flaherty, Alice Weaver

 
9780618485413: The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer's Block, and the Creative Brain
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ISBN 10 : 0618485414 ISBN 13 : 9780618485413
Editeur : Mariner Books, 2005

Synopsis

Why is it that some writers struggle for months to come up with the perfect sentence or phrase while others, hunched over a keyboard deep into the night, seem unable to stop writing? In The Midnight Disease, neurologist Alice W. Flaherty explores the mysteries of literary creativity: the drive to write, what sparks it, and what extinguishes it. She draws on intriguing examples from medical case studies and from the lives of writers, from Franz Kafka to Anne Lamott, from Sylvia Plath to Stephen King. Flaherty, who herself has grappled with episodes of compulsive writing and block, also offers a compelling personal account of her own experiences with these conditions.

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À propos de l'auteur

A. W. Flaherty is a neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital who also teaches at Harvard Medical School. She is the author of The Midnight Disease: The Drive to Write, Writer’s Block, and the Creative Brain. A. W. lives with her husband and twin daughters near Boston.

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Éditeur
Mariner Books
Date d'édition
2005
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0618485414
ISBN 13 
9780618485413
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
320
Coordonnées du fabricant
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