In Frankenstein there is a transfer first of life into death (in the creation and animation of the monster), and then of… — Laura Mullen Animation Copy Share Image
The performance group The Ant Farm redoing JFK's assassination in Dallas was an event that struck a chord with me, especially when… — Laura Mullen Ants 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… — Laura Mullen Abuse Copy Share Image
The failure of protection, the importance of recognizing the ways in which we influence (and infect) each other - the fact that… — Laura Mullen Facts Copy Share Image
Given our examination of the behavior of our police forces at this moment the question of protection has an extra resonance, yes? — Laura Mullen Behavior Copy Share Image
"Influence" is itself influenced, coming from an Italian word for the outbreak of a disease (influenza, outbreak). Influence is that which flows… — Laura Mullen Boundaries 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… — Laura Mullen Clear 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… — Laura Mullen Desire 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,… — Laura Mullen Book 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… — Laura Mullen Art 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)… — Laura Mullen Abuse 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… — Laura Mullen Batteries 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… — Laura Mullen Corpses 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 Book 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 Advice 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… — Laura Mullen Box office Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is an important feminine literary figure in the tradition of Antigone (though it's significant that Antigone is fighting to bury… — Laura Mullen Antigone Copy Share Image
Though we don't have a cure for cancer we at least have stopped being too ashamed to even say the name of… — Laura Mullen Aids 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… — Laura Mullen Add 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… — Laura Mullen Aspect 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 Art Copy Share Image
We live in a culture that insists on "moving on" (even while our loyalty to and love of the franchise and the… — Laura Mullen And love 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… — Laura Mullen Arson 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… — Laura Mullen Approved Copy Share Image
Is the professor who insists we read Ernest Hemingway again instead of Gertrude Stein "obsessing"? Because although I did a BA in… — Laura Mullen Books 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… — Laura Mullen Acknowledgement Copy Share Image
Wherever something is "pinned down" there's a little hole - at least one - more likely many. — Laura Mullen Hole Copy Share Image
I'm interested in finding new and more humane modes of safety, and in exposing the arbitrary and superficial protections that have failed… — Laura Mullen Arbitrary Copy Share Image
So when we're told to "move on" or "let go," we should take a look at who is saying it and why,… — Laura Mullen Attempting Copy Share Image
With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things… — Laura Mullen Certain Copy Share Image
When I encountered "The Lady of Shallot" (to take a "for instance" allusion from the many in the book, this one from… — Laura Mullen Admire Copy Share Image
I hope, by being honest about what happened to me, to help nourish a culture of honesty that might make something different… — Laura Mullen Abuse Copy Share Image
Miss Havisham is a glitch in the smooth functioning of the Patriarchy, enforcing awareness of a moment of social disaster and personal… — Laura Mullen Awareness Copy Share Image
It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on… — Laura Mullen Asking Copy Share Image
If we take seriously the idea that the stories we want to hear shape the stories we can (and want to, and… — Laura Mullen Canon 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 Compare 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 Bargains 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… — Laura Mullen Anticipate Copy Share Image
In a museum in El Paso, Texas, there's a map that shows all the places the border between the U.S. and Mexico… — Laura Mullen Arbitrary Copy Share Image
It's painful, but it's part of the recognition that makes real healing possible, if healing is possible (the jury is out on… — Laura Mullen Attending Copy Share Image
