Epstein Secrets

nder the gender-neutral name of N. J. C. Andreasen. Not long after this, a book written about the poet John Donne was accepted for publication by Princeton University Press. Instead of feeling elated, I felt almost ashamed and self-indulgent. Who would this book help? What if I channeled the effort and energy invested

onnegut, who died of natural causes, got off relatively easy. Among those who ended up losing their battles with mental illness through suicide are Virginia Woolf, Ernest Hemingway, Vincent van Gogh, John Berryman, Hart Crane, Mark Rothko, Diane Arbus, Anne Sexton, and Arshile Gorky. My interest in this patt

45 “The bousterious sea of liberty”: Thomas Jefferson to Philip Mazzei, The Papers of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 29: 1 March 1796 to 31 December 1797 (Princeton University Press, 2002), 81-3 40 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018272 violence, like the scale of the industry that produced it, defied anything even the wisest minds could fore

ughter Eleanor into a world of adventure even as the change dooms Crosby, the family’s long-serving maid. “For Crosby, it was the end of everything,” Woolf wrote. “She had known every cupboard, flagstone, chair and table in the large rambling house, not from five or six feet distance as they had known it

ry year from 1800- 1950, we constructed a cohort consisting of the fifty most famous people born in that year. For example, the 1882 cohort includes “Virginia Woolf” and “Felix Frankfurter”; the 1946 cohort includes “Bill Clinton” and “Steven Spielberg.” We plotted the median frequency for the names in each cohor

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