Throughout this work, she explains how she has consistently taken the suffering that she has experienced and used it to fuel her writing. In her recent literary memoir, The Thorn Necklace, Block gives an intimate glimpse into her life and creative process. Her creativity and prolific output over the last 30 years are both undeniable - ever since her debut novel Weetzie Bat hit the scene in 1989, Block has published over 25 books. I have always wondered about this trick of hers, this singular talent to make her readers feel how simultaneously painful and gorgeous life can be. She shows her readers how full of agony this world is, and yet how beautiful it can be at the same time: while the world appears riddled with war and tragedy and pain and heartbreak, it’s also brimming with friendship and love and delicious food and art and magic. Throughout her career, Francesca Lia Block has maintained a primary magic. Billed Into Silence: Money and the Miseducation of Women.
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