Author Elizabeth Tallent's profound new memoir explores writer's block — and the allure of perfectionism. After her third short story collection came out in 1993, she didn't publish another book for 22 years.
Writer's block can be temporary — or it can be massive and long lasting. After her third short story collection,, came out in 1993, Elizabeth Tallent fell victim to a rockfall, avalanche, total-impasse-of-the-imagination writer's block and didn't publish another book for 22 years.ScratchedBook by book, perfectionism hamstrung writing. You'd think this curtailment would be painful. That it would raise loud alarms for a writer.
Lamott extols the freeing possibilities of accepting the inevitability of what she famously calls"the s***** first draft." Tallent, in contrast, takes readers deep into her own internal high-pressure chambers of self-loathing and not-enough-ness — feelings that can goad creativity, but also ultimately shut it down.has a driven feel to it as a memoir.
Tallent's allusive narrative jumps around in time, but the"primal scene" here, the moment which rouses the perfectionism that will direct her life, takes place minutes after her birth in a Washington, D.C., area hospital in the 1950s. A nurse attempts to put the infant Tallent into her groggy mother's arms and her mother refuses.
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