March 2024's new children's book releases include stories about growing up Deaf, grappling with mental illness, housing Korean War refugees, and more. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2024-03-08 11:30:00 UTC ]
Jami Nakamura Lin begins with a warning: “In the presence of a story—if the story is a good one—time collapses.” This is precisely what she achieves in a genre-bending memoir that collapses past and present, personal and mythical. The Night Parade begins with her attempts to trace the origins of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Electric Literature | 2023-11-07 12:00:00 UTC ]
Bethanne Patrick's November highlights include new fiction from Michael Cunningham, a wild alt-history from Ed Park and nonfiction on COVID, mental illness and AI. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-10-31 13:00:40 UTC ]
Nicholas Breutzman's graphic memoir 'Pill Hill' is a deeply distressing tale of his former spouse’s drug addiction and mental illness and his desperate efforts to protect his children—plus an entertaining account of finding new love. A nine-page excerpt. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2023-10-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
Bethanne Patrick's recommended reads for September include novels from Ben Fountain and Anne Enright and nonfiction on mental illness, AR-15s and doppelgangers. Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2023-08-31 15:00:47 UTC ]
A Q&A with Jonathan Rosen, whose new book, The Best Minds, delves into a fraught friendship and the societal response to schizophrenia Continue reading >> [ Source: The Atlantic | 2023-04-21 18:24:00 UTC ]
Based on Anne Deveson’s 1991 memoir about her son’s experience with schizophrenia, this play can be achingly sad. But it also offers hope. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Conversation | 2022-08-26 01:01:35 UTC ]
From a look at fonts to mental illness and understanding sexuality, these nonfiction manga titles are must-reads. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-06-24 10:35:00 UTC ]
May is Mental Health Awareness Day. Recognize it by picking up some of these nonfiction and fiction titles about living with mental illness, including Heart Berries by Terese Marie Mailhot. Continue reading >> [ Source: Book Riot | 2022-05-03 10:36:00 UTC ]
Bloomsbury Professional has acquired Mental Disorders, Mental Illness and the Family Court, a reference book for non-medical professionals, headed up by semi-retired published Derek Cross. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-30 15:33:51 UTC ]
Writer Christina Patterson returns with a memoir about family, mental illness, cake and fortitude. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2021-11-12 05:08:47 UTC ]
Antrim’s memoir offers an unvarnished portrait of suicidal thinking and finding a way out. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-10-22 12:00:00 UTC ]
Zando, launched by former Crown publisher Molly Stern six months ago, announced its first acquisition, a reference guide written by a prominent psychiatrist affiliated with the National Association on Mental Illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-14 04:00:00 UTC ]
Novelists no longer shy away from tough issues readers are facing such as mental illness, racial inequity, sexual harassment and abuse, trafficking, and domestic violence. Continue reading >> [ Source: Publishers Weekly | 2021-04-09 04:00:00 UTC ]
What’s considered “normal” is contingent on culture, Roy Richard Grinker explains. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2021-02-12 13:00:00 UTC ]
Essay To mark the upcoming 2020 Neustadt Lit Fest and the announcement of the 2021 NSK Neustadt Prize for Children’s Literature, here is an excerpt featuring the children’s and young adult books selection from 100 Essential Books by Iranian Writers,... Continue reading >> [ Source: World Literature Today | 2020-09-30 13:21:42 UTC ]
Two celebrated memoirists of mental illness—Marin Sardy, author of The Edge of Every Day: Sketches of Schizophrenia, and Sarah C. Townsend, author of Setting the Wire: A Memoir of Postpartum Psychosis—discuss writing, families, and the struggle to make meaning out of madness. * Sarah Townsend:... Continue reading >> [ Source: Literrary Hub | 2020-05-01 08:47:51 UTC ]
Robert Kolker on a family’s struggle — and how it advanced the science of mental illness. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-04-07 11:00:00 UTC ]
The Bodley Head is to publish Lucy Foulkes’ corrective on mental illness after a six-way auction. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2020-03-06 23:10:14 UTC ]
Legend Press has bagged a “warm and poignant” debut novel exploring identity, race and mental illness by writer and painter Alex Morrall. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-10-22 16:25:02 UTC ]