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5 Myths About Depression We Need to Shut Down Immediately

Originally posted on Psychology Today. Depression, like art, can never be adequately described in words alone, though Andrew Solomon comes close in his memoir Noonday Demon. In it, he writes: "I felt as though I had a physical need, of impossible urgency and discomfort, from which there was no release—as though I were…
Allison Abrams
February 5, 2018
Nonfiction

Allie Brosh Making Solutions Problematic Once Again

As someone who can only barely remember a time before the internet, I tend to give the online world a whole lot of legitimacy. So when popular online figures extend their reach into the world of traditional publishing, I usually meet the announcement with a less than enthusiastic, “Meh.” But…
Joel Higgins
July 8, 2015
Fiction

Logic Breaks into Book Industry with “Supermarket”

Bobby Hall, best known in the music world as the platinum-selling recording artist Logic, has made a habit of shocking the world with his talent and ambition. A high school dropout raised in a home crippled with substance addiction, many would have predicted that Hall's inauspicious circumstances early on would…
Rebecca Proulx
March 26, 2019
Fiction

“Still Life With Monkey” Ponders Carrying On

In Katharine Weber’s Still Life With Monkey (Paul Dry Books), Duncan Wheeler, a talented architect and owner of his own firm in New Haven, CT. On the way back from visiting his Thimble Islands site, he gets into a horrific car accident.  His assistant is killed and he survives, but suffers…
Jennifer Blankfein
October 8, 2018