It seems all "protection" has to be monitored, considered, weighed and justified - I am suggesting we do that (but it's something Mary Shelley (and Gertrude Stein) also suggest). "Torch Song," the book's final section, looks at an arson committed… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (whose mother died ten days after she was born) wrote a novel that anticipates Semmelweis's discovery and serves as a parable for the destructive power of decaying matter. — 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
I can tell that I shaped the book very deliberately, after a great deal of thought, and that I insisted this piece function as… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
There's a nice clear difference between real protection (wash your hands, or wear a condom) and the fake protection offered by institutions which often… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
One might say that "Torch Song" is, in part, about the urgency of the effort to pin things down and what wild dart throwing… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
