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Posts Tagged: Beth Boyle Machlan

This Week in Essays

By Tamara Matthews

November 22nd, 2017

A weekly roundup of essays we’re reading online!

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Tags: Aimee Levitt, Beth Boyle Machlan, entropy, Glynn Pogue, Guernica, Lit Hub, lyz lenz, Marcos Santiago Gonsalez, Martha Lundin, Min Jin Lee, The New Inquiry, The Takeout, This Week in Essays

Blue, Blue Windows: On Writing and Helplessness in the Age of Trump

By Beth Boyle Machlan

November 16th, 2017

The brain in the jar wants out, you know. It just can’t do anything about it.

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Tags: alcohol, alcoholism, Auden, Beth Boyle Machlan, Bruegel, cocaine, depression, Donald Trump, drugs, election 2016, electro-convulsive therapy, family, fathers, fathers and daughters, Freud, Hillary Clinton, hospital, illness, Joni Mitchell, K.D. Lang, Laura Viers, marion wrenn, Martin Scorsese, Mental Health, mental illness, neil young, neko case, Politics, Rick Danko, Robbie Robertson, Shake Shack, The Band, The Fall of Icarus, The Last Waltz, therapy, Vanity Fair, withdrawal

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