1) Write about affliction 2) ??? 3) PROFIT?
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/01/does_melancholy_literature_dee.html
srsly though, it's a good question, and hell, at least three hours since i linked to a guardian blog.
― That one guy that hit it and quit it, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:07 (eighteen years ago)
I dunno, a bad book about depression will be a bad book. And a good book about depression will be a good book. I can't imagine reading miserable memoirs etc would make you MORE depressed if you were already in the depths, but it might bring you down a bit if you weren't.
People rave about The Noonday Demon. I liked Sunbathing in the Rain by Gwyneth Lewis. (Poets are often quite good at this sort of book?)
― Archel, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 14:51 (eighteen years ago)
I can tell you reading The Bell Jar (4,378 times) as a 15-year-old certainly made me a lot more depressed and hopeless. (I found about it from an episode of "Sabrina the Teenage Witch:!)
― Abbott, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 15:24 (eighteen years ago)
Reading the average edition of the Grauniad makes me depressed; does that count?
Also, Charlie Brooker.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 15:31 (eighteen years ago)
I was about to say the same thing, Abbott. I think it set me on a path from cheerleader type to boring depresso type
― sunny successor, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 15:32 (eighteen years ago)
Don't know why they bother, eh? Cut the saddos' hands off lolz.
I think this is what Lezard is really saying.
― Dingbod Kesterson, Wednesday, 16 January 2008 15:37 (eighteen years ago)