9 Hopeful Books About Schizophrenia
Stories about mental illness can be honest without being depressing
Stories about mental illness can be honest without being depressing
Wouldn’t it be a relief if we could stop asking authors to meet a specific set of diagnostic criteria?
Leanne Toshiko Simpson recommends novel and memoirs that show what it's like to live with a mental illness
My son doesn’t remember an America where schoolchildren weren’t being killed by guns
Sarah Beth Childers uses the parable as a lens to understand her brother's death
Bennett Sims recommends stories that imagine what animals or inanimate objects might be thinking
Lee Kelly, author of "With Regrets," recommends novels where sharing a meal is fraught with tension and danger
Celeste Lipkes, author of “Radium Girl,” recommends poems confronting difficult-to-discuss medical diagnoses
"Quantum Voicemail" by Kristen Iskandrian, recommended by Electric Literature
Sun Yung Shin, editor of "What We Hunger For," recommends experimental and hybrid literature