Delphine de Vigan Archive

Stephen King’s Misery, Delphine de Vigan’s Based on a True Story, and Writers’ Fears

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If de Vigan’s novel indulges the writer’s fear that the writing may dry up, King’s indulges a different but related fear: that you will be forced to write, forever, what you long to outgrow.

The End of January: Suicide and Rape in Nothing Holds Back the Night

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Having discovered her mother’s body several days after her suicide, Delphine de Vigan is moved to write not only her own recollections of her mother, but to graft a whole context for a woman who repeatedly came together and apart in Nothing Holds Back the Night.