An unemployed male nurse lands a job at a reproductive clinic only to learn the babies he is helping to create are being sold to the local vampire population.
Fifty dollars an hour would help him catch up on his mortgage and get his wife to stop nagging him about the bills. However, using his own semen to propagate the reproductive cycle is more than a little weird.
After considering the job and the busty HR manager, he agrees to continue the interview. Stacey Carroll's books on Goodreads. Toggle Navigation. Writer Jewelry Return Policy. Subscribe to Receive Book and Website Updates. Free Website Hosting. Sponsored by Amazon. Share This. Thompson, who penned stoner classics like Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and The Rum Diary while also carving out a prolific career as a journalist for Rolling Stone and ESPN , was a riotous character whose affinity for drugs, alcohol and rebellious behavior is well documented.
Gonzo, indeed. A massively influential romantic writer whose works deal almost exclusively with death and the macabre, Poe carries a reputation so gleefully crazy that he has often been fictionalized in other creative endeavors, appearing as a genius madman or a tormented, brooding figure with an affinity for lurking and haunting. With a reputation like that, who knows what other secrets this macabre author had going for him.
Dickens, who is routinely cited as amongst the greatest authors ever to have put pen to paper, lived an extremely interesting personal life, one which has lead some individuals to suggest the late author was an unstable sort of character.
Dickens, who also made notable works like A Christmas Carol , had a reputation as a bit of a ladies man, even in his old age and well into his marriage, a shocking sort of revelation for the man who gave the world Oliver Twist. Of all the authors in the world whose works are most closely associated with their mental illness, Sylvia Plath is undoubtedly the most famous. Plath, whose works also include a wide variety of revered poetry and numerous collections, attempted to commit suicide multiple times before finally succeeding in , at the age of thirty.
She did important work while alive, however, and The Bell Jar remains one of the foremost texts called upon when studying depictions of depression in literature. You write on your own and may not interact with others, he says. You may also write late into the night or even only at night.
Straker says. Lack of sleep, exercise, natural light, and company can be a recipe for depression. Alexandra Styron, the youngest child of acclaimed American writer William Styron, chronicled what it was like growing up with him in her critically acclaimed memoir Reading My Father. She has a unique take on writers and depression. I believe he struggled with depression all his life, but it was at his worst when he was frustrated creatively.
Styron recalls that her dad was extremely private about his work. As a child, I had a hard time understanding what he was up to. You are commenting using your Twitter account. You are commenting using your Facebook account. Notify me of new comments via email. Notify me of new posts via email. This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. Skip to content. Like this: Like Loading Previous Previous post: Do you inhabit your characters or do they inhabit you?
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