Writing While (Not) Loving, Loving While (Not) Writing

Michael Berger bio ↓ · February 4th, 2010 · filed under books

“Edmund Wilson encouraged his second wife Mary McCarthy’s first forays into fiction by shutting her in a room for three hours and asking her to write a story.

Author Shirley Jackson’s husband Stanley Hyman, a literary critic and writer for The New Yorker, devised strict writing schedules for her. And with the money from Jackson’s royalty checks, he purchased a dishwasher to make more time for her writing.”

At The Millions, a provocative essay on the joys and difficulties of balancing relationships and writing.

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Michael Berger is a San Francisco-based writer, blogger and fiction editor for www.splintergeneration.com. A former civil rights law clerk, he now works at a bookstore, volunteers at Alemany Farm and is working on various unfinished novels about love and the apocalypse. More from this author →

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