Marcus Sedgwick Interview
Content warning: we talk about mental illness, chronic illness, and suicide. I chat to prolific and award winning author Marcus Sedgwick all about his writing process, the therapuetic effects of writing, and how important reading can be for mental wellbeing. We also discuss Marcus" research into illness and writers and how illness has affected his writing practice, alongside his as yet unpublished book on chronic illness. Marcus" Twitter Marcus" website Marcus" books Things mentioned in the episode: Midwinter Blood by Marcus Sedgwick Floodland by Marcus Sedgwick My Swordhand is Swinging by Marcus Sedgwick The Foreshadowing by Marcus Sedgwick The Dark Flight Down by Marcus Sedgwick The Book of Dead Days by Marcus Sedgwick David Almond The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann Death in Venice by Thomas Mann Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick All in Your Head by Marcus Sedgwick This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay Sylvia Plath Virginia Woolf On Being Ill by Virginia Woolf Sigmund Freud Carl Jung Black Beauty by Anna Sewell Uncle Tom"s Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction by Frank Kermode
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