It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance? — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Helen Vendler calls this kind of interrogation of a work "roads not taken," suggesting that it's useful, when writing critically, to consider what differences it makes to the work or the encounter with the work if changes are made. It's… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Oh my research. Well, I got an English Degree. And I got that degree in a certain time/at a certain place. If you add… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The boundary between expert and amateur was an imposed social-cultural "protection" which actually exposed a number of women to a fatal disease, because decaying… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of death into… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Is it possible that where the subject is socially approved (tah tah tah TAH tah, it's war) almost no one thinks we're "stuck," but… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
There's a case in Baton Rouge, haunting me, where a mother left her twelve-year-old daughter to be babysat (every day for months) by a… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Admitting how ill we are, how deep the damage goes, how constantly the abuse cycle is repeated and how horribly we have failed those… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
In the "Intervention" section of the book we go into that looping from a battery of positions (where healer and sufferer are blurred). I'm… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
And Complicated Grief is a text that announces, from the start, in its citation of influence, dense intertextuality and hybridity, a failure of some… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Maybe one way to think about it would be in the context of the historical development of germ theory. The problem of childbed fever… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Star Wars film is breaking all previous box office records. (Why might we want to revisit those characters, that narrative, those jokes and tropes… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my own "complicated… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
