The most important aspect of writing the pieces that make up this eighth book was yielding to my obsessive side, letting my… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
Complicated Grief was written in larger and more coherent (if disparate) shapes. The question was how they fit together. The mind is… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I had Paterson, and The Art Lover, to guide me for The Tales of Horror (written from 1988-'97 and published in 1999),… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
I love that "furious and gorgeous barrage." That helps me see the relation between the introduction and the book's final section, where… — 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… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
What was toughest for me in writing "Trust," was reliving it, turning and facing this. We move on and we don't move… — 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
