Alice Flaherty: "The Midnight Disease" (Houghton Mifflin)

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Alice Flaherty: "The Midnight Disease" (Houghton Mifflin)

Writers often say they are driven to write. Now there's proof of a physiological compulsion. Author and neurologist Alice Flaherty draws on scientific research, her own experience, and the lives of other writers to explore how and why we...

Writers often say they are driven to write. Now there's proof of a physiological compulsion. Author and neurologist Alice Flaherty draws on scientific research, her own experience, and the lives of other writers to explore how and why we write.

Guests

Dr. Alice Flaherty

author, neurologist at Massachusetts General Hospital, teacher at Harvard Medical School.

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