Tag: mental illness

by M. Bijman February 26, 2018

2 The Creative Process – Unreliable authors and narrators

Does an unreliable narrator mean the author is also unreliable? In the previous article, about “mad, bad and dangerous toContinue Reading

by M. Bijman April 8, 2016

Discussion of writing style Humor Humour Review of Autobiography Review of new book

Furiously Happy, by Jenny Lawson

I read Jenny Lawson’s first autobiography Let’s Pretend This Never Happened, with a sense of having made a happy discovery,Continue Reading

by M. Bijman March 2, 2014

Review of new book Review of new novel Review of novel

Umbrella, by Will Self – Writing as avant-garde Jazz

(Bloomsbury Publishing, 2012) You have to be determined to finish Umbrella. It’s 379 pages of text with no line breaks.Continue Reading

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