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Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
This is the cover of my new book, Everyone Loves a Good Train Wreck
About Me
- 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.
Thank you for this article. I am so appreciative of your insights about these issues. I feel that I, too, am depressed about feeling depressed and anxious about feeling anxious. Everything is worsened by my feeling that I "ought" to be a different way. Thank you for affirming that sadness is a viable way, if not a pleasant one.
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