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What is film noir? Are they films about hard boiled detectives and seductive femme fatales? Are they about troubled heroes with soiled pasts that keep catching up with them? Are they all about black and white chiaroscuro lighting, dark offices with light shining in through the blinds, and cigarette smoke that takes on a life [...]
Posted by Nathanael Hood on Wednesday, July 7, 2010 at 12:01 am
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From the earliest records of ancient civilizations to the most recent works produced by modernity, the history of literature bears witness to the creative power of the human mind. We have before us a vast library of stories, plays, and poetry to enjoy at our leisure, but in some cases this creativity came with a [...]
Posted by Brandt on Wednesday, October 14, 2009 at 12:01 am
Filed under Literature, People · Tagged anne sexton, author, authors, authors Who Committed Suicide, Books, depression, Ernest Hemingway, hunter s. thompson, jerzy kosinski, john berryman, karin boye, mental health, mental illness, richard brautigan, suicide, top 10 suicidal writers, tyunosuke akutagawa, virginia woolf, writer, writers, Writers Who Committed Suicide, yukio mishima
These writers, musicians, and painters created masterpieces in the realms of literature, music, and art. At different stages of their lives, every person on this list suffered from severe hardships, mental illness and feelings of loneliness and despair. All of them suffered for their art in order to create legacies of great imagination and epic [...]
Posted by Heather Matthews on Wednesday, July 1, 2009 at 12:03 am
Filed under Art, People · Tagged Add new tag, alcohol, artists, authors, bohemian, Dostoyevsky, Ernest Hemingway, gambling, gambling addiction, George Orwell, haunting, Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec, heroin, homosexual, Kurt Cobain, Literature, Ludwig van Beethoven, musician, painters, passion, playwright, poets, suicide, Sylvia Plath, Tennessee Williams, Thomas De Quincey, tortured artists, Vincent van Gogh
It is journalistic practice for rookies to start writing obits as their first assignments when first diving into the newspaper world. Sometimes these writers get ahead of themselves and some celebrities will find out that their obituaries have been written before their demise. And that means that a few of those people have the misfortune [...]
Posted by William O'Dell on Friday, November 7, 2008 at 12:02 am
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