Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

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A visceral look at the bizarre entanglement of destructive and creative forces, Live Through This is a collection of original stories, essays, artwork and photography. It explores the use of art to survive abuse, incest, madness and depression and the often deep-seated impulse toward self-destruction including cutting, eating disorders, and addiction. Here some of the most compelling cartoonists, novelists, poets, dancers and playwrights mark a path for survival through their art.

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The 21 artists, who share their stories of madness, trauma, addiction, abuse and self-destruction, and their relationship to art, leave no vulnerable detail unwritten.Shameless

The [contributors to]Live Through Thistestify to lives of survivalturning tears and tendencies toward mania, depression, and self-mutilation into powerful lessons.Curve Magazine

Captivating, concise, and humbling, Live Through This is easy to put down between pieces and become just as immersed upon picking it up again.Feminist Review

The essays and visuals that make upLive Through Thisplum the depths of out-of-control lives, examining how self-destruction functions as both a hindrance and a productive challenge.Bitch Magazine

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SABRINA CHAPADJIEV is a playwright, spoken word artist, andsinger-songwriter originally from the suburbs of Chicago. She is founder of theall-woman songwriter series Chicks that Kick, and editor of the zine Cliterature- 18Interviews with Women Writers. Her plays, including perhaps merely quiet, havebeen produced in the United States and Europe.