Category Archives: Hope and Other Luxuries

The Awkward Dance of the Imaginary and the Real

Posted on March 20, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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The Birth of THE HOUSE OF DEAD MAIDS

Posted on March 18, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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The Imaginary World and the Real World

Posted on March 17, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Characters as Their Own People

Posted on March 16, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Writing distractions

Posted on March 15, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Jungian archetypes in writing

Posted on March 13, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Finding a Publisher

Posted on March 2, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Writing My First Novel

Posted on March 1, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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The Creative Process: Imagination

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Clare Dunkle

My memoir, Hope and Other Luxuries, tells about my attempts to cope with my daughter Elena’s anorexia nervosa. But it also tells the story of my creative life from the beginning of my writing career. I’ve decided to share those … Continue reading →

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Looking Back, Looking Ahead, Looking Around

Posted on November 15, 2016 by Clare Dunkle

For the last fifteen months, I’ve been pretending that Elena’s and my memoirs, Elena Vanishing and Hope and Other Luxuries, didn’t exist. It was just too painful to think of the darkest moments of our lives out there in bookstores … Continue reading →

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