Hypergraphia and Hypographia: 'Diseases' of Written Word

Roundtable discussion featuring Jonathan Lethem, Alice Flaherty, Pedro Reyes, Francis Levy, Alan Jacobs, and Lois Oppenheim

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Education

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• philoctetes
• roundtable
• hypergraphia
• authors
• jonathan
• lethem
• alice
• flaherty
• writer's
• block

[daalsij]

wow this is long. interesting though

[widerling]

I don't know what I mean until I see what I say.

[Lefilmno1r]

i am the epitome of this "disease" it is fucking impossible.

[faunflynn]

After some real bad stuff in 2000 I began to write in an obsessive and out of control way. I would write on books on any surface and most of it was crazy gibberish but some was great. the problem was editing stuff out after the fact. It really didn't help cuz the only stuff that really made sense I had to see as a finished idea before I wrote it. It's a real pain. It's so chaotic.Just my quids worth.

[MyogaSama]

This is incredibly interesting. I've taken an incredibly sudden interest in Alice Flaherty's works since I read an issue of "Psychology Today" that discussed, very briefly, her research. I'm an aspiring college student with an undecided major and can't seem to soak in enough of this kind of information.