Intimate Antipathies

IntimateAntipathies is the much-anticipated new book by Luke Carman, the award-winning author ofthe cult classic An Elegant Young Man . The essays in this collectionfollow the writer in his oscillations through anxiety, outrage and ecstasy, andin the process explore the connections between writing and dreaming, writingand mental illness, writing and the complications of family life. Fromhis famous jeremiad against arts administrators in 'Getting Square in a JerkingCircle', through the psychotic