What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move on, you know? She's still there - and by "she" I mean me - caught in that windowless room, that bad bargain and that violation. No one can touch me, sexually, without activating that memory. But I had walled, I thought, that time off. I say that and then want to say "and I got off lightly"!
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to. - Laura Mullen
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing that desire leads to.
- Laura Mullen
The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual"… - Laura Mullen
The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that being an "individual"…
Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes? - Laura Mullen
Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes?
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some … - Laura Mullen
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some …
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerge… - Laura Mullen
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and are allowed to) tell, then the canon emerge…
Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in … - Laura Mullen
Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in English, an MFA in …
"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows acro… - Laura Mullen
"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows acro…
Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many. - Laura Mullen
Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many.
Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what di… - Laura Mullen
Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what di…
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