A Necessary Anger for Writers -

For Writers - "A Necessary Anger"

"IN A 1978 LETTER to the novelist Cynthia Buchanan, William Gaddis — The Recognitions and J R behind him — discusses the difficulty, in late middle age, of staying angry enough to write well: -- "

From LA Review of Books -

I feel much better now - everyone from my child to ex-in laws always say I am "too angry" but here it is - only my Buddhist friend from Chicago, herself with a new kidney, said, -- like Vijrapani, the blue-skinned god who is the bodyguard of Gautama Buddha and said to be based on the Greek Hercules - "Anger can be a good thing."

Thank you, J.L.

KMK