Gill Hornby
All Hellbent on their Own Destruction
Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women
By Elizabeth Wurtzel
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The American poet Anne Sexton – celebrated, like the other American poet Sylvia Plath, for her suicide – once burned her finger a teensy little bit at a dinner party, while she was striking a match. The incident is recalled here by a fellow dinner guest:
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In this month's Silenced Voices, @lucyjpop shines a light on the tragic case of Shady Habash, a filmmaker who died in an Egyptian prison in May.
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One study found that hoarders 'had lesions on the mesial prefrontal cortex of their brains ... Collecting and hoarding, in other words, are the results of brain damage.'
James Delbourgo explores the psychology of minimalists & collectors.
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