Live Through This: On Creativity and Self-Destruction

A cool anthology of art and writing by women who find creative power in their deepest troubles. Do you have to have a hard life to be an artist? Maybe not, but all art speaks to deep human emotions, and it's hard to tap into those when you sail through life easy as a breeze. In fact, some of the most vital and compelling art of the last century has been made by women who draw on their experiences of trauma, madness, abuse, depression, addiction, cutting, suicide, and looking straight into the darkest parts of themselves.