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Against Happiness

This blog exposes the limitations of happiness and reveals the powers of life's more acerbic sides--melancholia, morbid curiosity, and irony--all of which I explore in my recent books: EVERYONE LOVES A GOOD TRAIN WRECK: WHY WE CAN'T LOOK AWAY; AGAINST HAPPINESS: IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLY; THE MERCY OF ETERNITY: A MEMOIR OF DEPRESSION AND GRACE; and MY BUSINESS IS TO CREATE: BLAKE'S INFINITE WRITING.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Salon Magazine: What Draws Us to Rubbernecking?

http://www.salon.com/2012/02/18/the_science_of_rubbernecking/
Posted by Eric G. Wilson at 2:07 AM 6 comments:

The Barnes and Noble Review Praises Train Wreck

http://bnreview.barnesandnoble.com/t5/Reviews-Essays/Everyone-Loves-a-Good-Train-Wreck-Why-We-Can-t-Look-Away/ba-p/6975
Posted by Eric G. Wilson at 2:06 AM 8 comments:

Minneapolis Star-Tribune Review of Train Wreck

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/139474458.html
Posted by Eric G. Wilson at 2:04 AM 2 comments:

Oprah Magazine Calls My New Book a March "Must Read"

I'm obliged to Oprah magazine for shedding a little light on the dark side: http://www.oprah.com/book/Everyone-Loves-a-Good-Train-Wreck
Posted by Eric G. Wilson at 1:58 AM 2 comments:
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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck

Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
This is the cover of my new book, Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck

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Eric G. Wilson
I have published books on several subjects, including androids, ice, Gnostic cinema, and David Lynch. My most recent book is EVERYONE LOVES A GOOD TRAIN WRECK: WHY WE CAN'T LOOK AWAY (Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, Feb. 2012), which explores the virtues of morbid curiosity. Earlier, I published MY BUSINESS IS TO CREATE: BLAKE'S INFINITE WRITING. It is a handbook on creativity for writers and artists. Other books include THE MERCY OF ETERNITY: A MEMOIR OF DEPRESSION AND GRACE, an account of my struggle with and ultimate embrace of my bipolar disorder in the wake of my daughter's birth; and AGAINST HAPPINESS: IN PRAISE OF MELANCHOLY, which challenges America's addiction to superficial happiness and demonstrates the revelatory powers of melancholy.
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