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Trauma: Essays on Art and Mental Health—a few words about a new anthology and my own contribution @DodoInk

One of my most precious possessions is a still from the classic 1919 film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, created for me four decades ago by a besotted admirer, the oddly effete son of a burly local sportscaster. It is a close up from the final scene at the asylum, of Cesare, the mad doctor’s imagined murderous somnambulist, peacefully examining a flower. It is my favourite moment in the film, a…

So first of all two updates… A book I’ve co-edited is out this March. My Europe by Patrician Press. http://patricianpress.com/book/my-europe-a-patrician-press-anthology/ My second book, a novella called The Life of Almost, will be published by Patrician Press this October. http://patricianpress.com/book/the-life-of-almost/ My third book, Saving Lucia will be published by Bluemoose Books in…