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Jul 07, 2012 07:46AM
So how do you write about the reality of a marriage? Reviewers have pointed out that we had a volatile (!) relationship, which is true. But we also had a deeply loving relationship. How do you write about the fights and the conflicts and the making up in a way that is true to what they really were.... doesn't romanticize them, but at the same time recognizes how really romantic the relationship really was. I
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I'm writing a literary piece for the Wall Street Journal right now based on the theme of "can't live with them, can't live without them". I'm finding that some variation on that is a pretty common literary theme. I posted elsewhere on Goodreads looking for suggestions of other such literary couples -- and just off the top of my head, we get: Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy; Catherine and Heathcliffe; Scarlett and Rhett; and in real life: Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton; Martha Gellhorn and Ernest Hemingway and Lillian Hellman and Dashiell Hammett. I know there are more. Pride and Prejudice
Travels With Myself and Another
The Children's HourThe Maltese FalconGone With the Wind


