Confronting and understanding the disorder has been a lifelong journey for me. My memoir, Pure, is just the latest stepDefining obsessive-compulsive disorder is tricky. Redefining it against the grain of near-universal misunderstanding is trickier. For decades, OCD has been conflated with perfectionism, rigidity, neatness, cleanliness. I hope that Pure – the Channel 4 TV drama series based on my book of the same name about living with intrusive sexual thoughts – has gone some way towards addressing these misconceptions.What I didn’t want to do with Pure was replace one reductive definition with another. OCD is no more about sex than it is about tidiness. The object of the obsessions is actually irrelevant when defining the mechanics of the condition and how it affects your brain. Someone with OCD experiences repetitive unwanted thoughts, fears, doubts or images. Everyone is familiar with such intrusions. But not everyone is rendered intensely anxious by them, or feels compelled to spend hours every day trying to resolve, escape or explain them. It’s this compulsive reactivity that marks out OCD. The compulsions make the obsessions worse and sufferers get stuck in a debilitating loop: a vicious cycle.Aged five, I’d climb the walls, terrified the Bosnian conflict would come for my family Related: Pure review – a masterly comedy about sex and mental health Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2019-02-21 00:00:00 UTC ]
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The longing for connection, for belonging, is woven throughout a dozen short stories in Caroline Kim’s superlative debut collection. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-10-13 22:35:50 UTC ]
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The longing for connection, for belonging, is woven throughout a dozen short stories in Caroline Kim’s superlative debut collection. Continue reading at The Christian Science Monitor
[ The Christian Science Monitor | 2020-10-13 22:35:50 UTC ]
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Ebury Press has bagged Fleshpot, the second book by Cash Carraway, billed as a “powerful, politically-charged” coming of age memoir set in the last days of the Soho sex industry. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-10-07 22:53:30 UTC ]
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Johny Pitts has won the 2020 Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing with his 'unique political documentary' Afropean: Notes from Black Europe (Allen Lane). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-09-23 11:39:51 UTC ]
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In packed workshop sessions and thematic buzz panels, booksellers and editors were able to rekindle much of the educational reason for attending—and some of the interpersonal reasons as well. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-23 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Unit sales of print books in the week ended Sept. 12, 2020, rose 7.2% over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-18 04:00:00 UTC ]
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L.A. poet laureate Robin Coste Lewis joins the L.A. Times Book Club Sept. 24 for Black Poets in a Time of Unrest, an evening of discussion and poetry performances. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-09-17 20:34:53 UTC ]
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After two weeks of minor declines, unit sales of print books rose 4.3% last week over the week ended August 29 at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. The increase was helped by Dav Pilkey's 'Dog Man: Grime and Punishment,' which sold more than 239,000 copies in its first week on sale. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-10 04:00:00 UTC ]
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Unit sales of print books rose 7.1% in the week ended Aug. 29, 2020, over the comparable week in 2019, at outlets that report to NPD BookScan. Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-09-04 04:00:00 UTC ]
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A PG-rated conversation with the famous therapist about sexuality and the Hebrew scriptures Continue reading at Publishers Weekly
[ Publishers Weekly | 2020-08-24 04:00:00 UTC ]
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“Alone Together,” edited by Jennifer Haupt, is a timely gift for the quarantined reader. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-08-20 12:09:09 UTC ]
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Sara Faith Alterman's "Let's Never Talk About This Again" is a memoir about strange family dynamics, love, grief and the benefits of finally opening up. Continue reading at Los Angeles Times
[ Los Angeles Times | 2020-08-05 18:00:51 UTC ]
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This week, co-hosts Eric and Medaya talk to professor, writer, and revolutionary, Frank B. Wilderson III, whose latest book, Afropessimism, is a work of memoir and theory. Wilderson defines Afropessism, the ways it has been misrepresented and how it can shape our understanding of contemporary... Continue reading at Los Angeles Review of Books
[ Los Angeles Review of Books | 2020-07-20 16:30:05 UTC ]
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In ”A Very Punchable Face,” the comedian pulls back the curtain on 30 Rockefeller Plaza and shares sidesplitting anecdotes from an uncannily eventful life. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-15 13:15:00 UTC ]
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Sony Pictures has bought the film rights to Kevin Kwan's new novel Sex and Vanity (Hutchinson). Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-07-12 16:38:32 UTC ]
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Review of ‘Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man’ by Mary L. Trump Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-07-09 13:20:12 UTC ]
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Verso has two books on the shortlist for the Bread & Roses Award for Radical Publishing 2020, administered by the Alliance of Radical Booksellers. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-30 00:47:19 UTC ]
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The “Crazy Rich Asians” author has a new novel, inspired by E.M. Forster’s “A Room With a View.” Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-29 12:00:00 UTC ]
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Given monster stories by Mary Shelley, Stephen King and other masters of the macabre, Brooks is trying to fill some awfully big shoes here. Continue reading at The Washington Post
[ The Washington Post | 2020-06-09 15:19:49 UTC ]
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More than 50 Janklow & Nesbit authors have contributed pieces to a project on the importance of storytelling in response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Continue reading at The Bookseller
[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-03 01:56:10 UTC ]
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