Benilde Little
My blogs
| Gender | Female |
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| Occupation | author/professor |
| Location | Northern New Jersey, United States |
| Introduction | This blog is about my upcoming book, Welcome to My Breakdown. It's my first non-fiction work, after having written four best-selling novels. The book is a momoir (yeah, I just made it up). It's about my mom and me. It's about me falling off the cliff from which I'd been dangling and plunging into cavern of depression so dark and scary that I didn't think I'd find my way out. The book is about coming out the darkest of it, the kind of depression that David Foster Wallace called a "a nausea of the soul." The stories about my smart, determine, hard-working, hilarious, working class mother are about all the invisible Black women born in the early part of the last century. The blog will be about things that inspire, confound me both as a writer, a mother, a wife and a human being. |
| Interests | Daydreaming, yoga, watching TV: Mad Men, Homeland, Downton Abbey. Human behavior. Reading fiction, some behavioral, cultural non-fiction, preferably on a beach. |
| Favorite Books | American Pastural by Phillip Roth, The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver, Brothers and Keepers by John Edgar Wideman, The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton, I Love You This Much by Sam McBratney, One Day by David Nicholls, Widow For a Year by John Irving, Crossing to Safety by Wallace Stegner, On Beauty by Zadie Smith, The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice MIller |