He received a Master of professional writing from the University of Southern California and took a Master of Arts in English from Northwest Missouri State University. Professor Dave Diamond received a Bachelor of Science in journalism and a Bachelor of Science in history from the University of Southern Mississippi. And Donald Hall lovingly remembers the 'moody seesaw' of his relationship with his wife, Jane Kenyon.The collection also includes an illuminating series of companion pieces.Director of Radio and Television Operations Ann Beattie sees melancholy as a consequence of her writing life. Meri Danquah describes the challenges of racism and depression. Larry McMurtry recounts the despair that descended after his quadruple bypass surgery. Susanna Kaysen, writing for the first time about depression since em Girl, Interrupted, em criticizes herself and others for making too much of the illness. Lauren Slater eloquently describes her own perilous experience as a pregnant woman on antidepressant medication. Unlike any other memoir of depression, however, em Unholy Ghost em includes many voices and depicts the most complete portrait of the illness. Russell Banks's and Chase Twichell's essays represent husbandandwife perspectives on depression Rose Styron's contribution about her husband's struggle with melancholy is pairedĮm Unholy Ghost em is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today.

And Donald Hall lovingly remembers the 'moody seesaw' of his relationship with his wife, Jane Kenyon.The collection also includes an illuminating series of companion pieces. Em Unholy Ghost em is a unique collection of essays about depression that, in the spirit of William Styron's Darkness Visible, finds vivid expression for an elusive illness suffered by more than one in five Americans today.

Unholy Ghost by Claudia Davison