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“Tripolar:” A Devastating and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness

How many blows can a fighter take before deciding to throw in the towel? Why does he think he is invincible, picking himself up off the canvas only to be pummeled again and again. Poundings to the midsection. Punches to the head. Until he finally sees what everyone else has…

Jim AlkonJuly 1, 2020

Better Self Better Self - Featured Nonfiction

An Intimate Memoir of the Bipolar Experience Penned to Pay it Forward

She needed to escape, so she ran. She found her way to the door of her house, slipped out and ran as fast as she could. “As I ran, I proceeded to strip every piece of clothing from my black body. I wanted nothing on me, nothing holding me back.”…

Jim AlkonFebruary 25, 2022

Thrillers Young Adult Young Adult - Featured

An Important Take on Grief, Mental Health and Identity in This Early Spooky Season Young Adult Read

EVERYONE HAS A DARK SIDE No matter how good we may try to be, the truth of the matter is that we are imperfect beings with imperfect thoughts and actions. As the horror genre so unflinchingly insists, darkness surrounds us, is within us, and is one of the fundamental building…

Monique SnymanSeptember 7, 2022

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Author Declassifies the War Within His Mind to Help Others in His Shoes

John Poehler in 1999 was diagnosed with Bipolar Disorder Type 1. Dealing with the effects of bipolar disorder were going to be monumental enough. But in that first wave of comprehension as the implications of the diagnosis sink in, emotions can run wild: fear, anxiety, depression, loneliness, worthlessness, maybe even…

Jim AlkonAugust 19, 2022

Nonfiction

Mariah Carey, Margot Kidder and Me: Defying The Verdict

After a public meltdown in 2001, Carey recently accepted her Bipolar II diagnosis, vowing to accept this diagnosis and care for herself. In April, she shared with okayplayer.com that she's “in a really good place hopeful we can get to a place where the stigma is lifted from people going…

Charita Cole BrownJuly 11, 2018

Nonfiction

BookTrib Q & A with Marcelino Truong, Author-Illustrator of Graphic Novel ‘Saigon Calling’

BookTrib: You’re a self-taught illustrator, and the images you have in both graphic novels are very particular, and sometimes deal with very heavy subject matter, which is reminiscent of MAUS. Did your artistic abilities grow organically in the media of drawing for graphic novels, or did you start off drawing,…

Marcelino TruongDecember 21, 2017

Nonfiction

Jenifer Lewis: The ‘Mother of Black Hollywood’ Gets Down and Dirty in New Memoir

If Jenifer Lewis can't make you laugh, then you just don't have a sense of humor. Lewis' career spans nearly four decades and she has played mother to almost every major African-American character in television and film, earning her the moniker, "The Mother of Black Hollywood." In an NPR interview,…

Aisha K. StaggersNovember 13, 2017

Better Self Nonfiction

Divorcee Speaks Out About Marriage Trauma in “They Get Your Highs (I Get Your Lows)”

Alcoholism. Narcissistic Personality Disorder. Bipolar Disorder. ADHD. Any one of these conditions is a challenge to forming and maintaining a healthy relationship with others. Anna Knight's husband had all four. In her enlightening and harrowing memoir, They Get Your Highs (I Get Your Lows): A Story of Survival and New…

Cynthia ConradMay 12, 2021

Fiction

Animal Husbandry and Academic Rivalry

Paging fans of Lisa Halliday’s Asymmetry: Lindsay Stern’s new novel, The Study of Animal Languages (Viking Books), is a thought-provoking and surefooted debut that balances questions of morality with an affecting emotional arc. Philosopher Ivan and animal linguistics expert Prue are married academics and (so-called) experts on communication whose relationship has flatlined, in…

Jessica McEnteeMarch 6, 2019

Fiction

Zelda and Mrs. Hemingway: Literary Wives Take Center Stage

Zelda Fitzgerald died 66 years ago to the day, in 1948. She had been a patient at Highland Mental Hospital in Asheville, North Carolina, off and on for nearly a dozen years. On March 10, fire spread through the hospital and burned nine women alive, including Zelda, who was on…

Rebecca FosterMarch 10, 2014

Nonfiction Nonfiction - Featured

Discharged Veteran’s Riveting Memoir of Journey from Addiction to Acceptance

All he genuinely wanted in life was acceptance. When he realized that, a perfect peace washed over him. So much so that he pulled his car over, got out, ran into the middle of the highway, and began stopping rush hour traffic to share the good news with everyone. As…

Jim AlkonOctober 14, 2022

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Jan Paez, Mental Health Advocate and Bipolar Author, Provides Hope in Healing Memoir

Jan Paez's debut, Tales of a Mad Hatter, is an important book on a subject near and dear to the author’s heart. It is a nonfiction offering in which the author himself struggles with childhood and adolescence that are punctuated by all kinds of abuse, trauma, darkness and growth through cold…

Judy MorenoDecember 13, 2021

“Tripolar:” A Devastating and Inspiring Memoir of Addiction and Mental Illness

An Intimate Memoir of the Bipolar Experience Penned to Pay it Forward

An Important Take on Grief, Mental Health and Identity in This Early Spooky Season Young Adult Read

Author Declassifies the War Within His Mind to Help Others in His Shoes

Mariah Carey, Margot Kidder and Me: Defying The Verdict

BookTrib Q & A with Marcelino Truong, Author-Illustrator of Graphic Novel ‘Saigon Calling’

Jenifer Lewis: The ‘Mother of Black Hollywood’ Gets Down and Dirty in New Memoir

Divorcee Speaks Out About Marriage Trauma in “They Get Your Highs (I Get Your Lows)”

Animal Husbandry and Academic Rivalry

Zelda and Mrs. Hemingway: Literary Wives Take Center Stage

Discharged Veteran’s Riveting Memoir of Journey from Addiction to Acceptance

Jan Paez, Mental Health Advocate and Bipolar Author, Provides Hope in Healing Memoir

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