What woman in her right mind...

Fourfold Wives' Tales: A Bundle of Books about Writers' Wives

New contributor Colleen M. Sullivan wonders how stories really get written. "Perhaps no one gets closer to understanding that mystery than a writer’s wife. But what must a woman endure for that understanding? For if the writing process can be broken into three simple steps, the preparation, in many a famous case, seems to consist of innumerable antic rounds of carousing, fretting, talking, and whoring. And who wants that? For whom is such an exchange a worthy bargain? Or in other words, what woman in her right mind marries a writer?"

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