Spare The Inferno, Dante, I’ll Pass.
Eschewing Nietzsche, Hemingway, and Dante. Or, how to come out of hell and back into a creative life after adversity.
Nietzsche believed that real adversity — horrible adversity — was actually a good thing. Anaïs Nin and Willa Cather believed it, too. Given that all are celebrated and their work is highly relevant to my own…