Voices on Addiction: A Conversation with Eva Hagberg Fisher
Eva Hagberg Fisher discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO BE LOVED.
...moreBecome a Rumpus Member
Join NOW!Eva Hagberg Fisher discusses her debut memoir, HOW TO BE LOVED.
...moreMy uncle and Rosemary Kennedy were born within nine years of one another. They both suffered from mental illness.
...moreI’ve never been clear on the nature of the injury to the brain. Something so fragile, I like to think of it as shattering like glass.
...moreWhat does not occur to me at the moment of this bloodlust, will not until much later, is that I am actively seeking the violence. I want to witness the worst.
...moreSideshows themselves are a place where people come to see a public display of their private fears. Fear of deformity, of a disruption of the gender binary, of mutation, of disfigurement, of a crossover with the animal world, of being out of proportion.
...more