Jacke Wilson

Author

Anxiety

January 23, 2019

The History of Literature #173 – The Yellow Wallpaper (with Evie Lee)

http://traffic.megaphone.fm/ADL4750355007.mp3 Happy new year! Host Jacke Wilson is joined by special guest Evie Lee, a vice-president at the Literature Supporters Club, for a conversation about the classic short story “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman. CHARLOTTE PERKINS GILMAN (1860-1935) wrote nine novels and novellas, several plays, and over 180 short stories in her writing Continue reading

Arts, Authors, books, Fiction, history of literature, Podcast, Writing

Anxiety, charlotte perkins gilman, feminism, horror fiction, medicine, yellow wallpaper
October 7, 2013

Are Authors All Narcissists?

Where does the desire to write fiction come from? Eagerness to tell stories? Desire to connect with people? Fame and fortune? Defeat death? Does it all boil down to unfettered narcissism? I don’t mean their fiction tends toward navel-gazing – it may or may not. I’m asking whether at the heart of all impulses to Continue reading

Authors, Writing

Anxiety, Eudora Welty, Extraversion and introversion, Henry Murray, Kafka, Maladaptive Covert Narcissism Scale, Narcissism, Scott Barry Kaufman