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Confronting the Damaging Myth of the Artistic Genius

Confronting the Damaging Myth of the Artistic Genius

“Geniuses” rely on a voracious public ready to forgive the previous offense, as long as the coming one even is more deliciously shocking.

How Emily Haines' Diary of Grief, Loss and Loneliness Became My Own

How Emily Haines' Diary of Grief, Loss and Loneliness Became My Own

I worked through Haines’ songs, as she patched together instances of her life with her father, and I also found myself, inexorably, doing the same.

MusicA. MartineMay 10, 2018metric, grief, loss, depression, death, music, emily haines, family, trauma, diary, intimate, universal, grandmother, father, poetry, poet, jazz, paul haines, album, idolization, connectionComment