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    Thank you to for including an interview with me about my memoir, The Art of Misdiagnosis, in this great compilation of reviews/interviews/essays on mental health and illness from their archives.

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  2. “Seeing yourself in a different context can change so much about your perception of yourself — in ways you can’t anticipate.” Rachel Barenbaum interviews Lauren Wilkinson:

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  3. “Gratuitous weirdness” is how characterizes the typical portrayal of autistic characters in media:

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  4. "To read 'Shortest Way Home' is to experience a profoundly millennial product, one that paints a starkly different reality and vision than the one on offer from boomers." on "Shortest Way Home":

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  6. "One lesson that never stopped surprising me was the disparity between the basic facts of the war in Afghanistan and what we were sold at home." interviews Michael Ames about his new book, "American Cipher," cowritten with Matt Farwell:

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  8. The politics of climate change: Alyssa Battistoni () on podcast "Start Making Sense"

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  9. “At half past five, having received her €120, she shuffles out, blinking at the pre-dawn light like a vampire, to wait for an overcrowded Uber pool.” Anna Friedrich tags after a Russian-born cabaret dancer in Paris.

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  10. 6/13: Our next Dinner will feature as our honored guest. with your ticket, and you'll take home copies of "This Storm" and the Everyman’s Library edition of "The L.A. Quartet."

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  11. "Part family drama, part trial drama, part culture war drama — digging into sensitive topics like parenthood, immigration, infertility, and alternative therapy — this novel is all secrets, secrets, secrets." on Angie Kim's "Miracle Creek":

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  12. "The poet 'is supposed to look' not just at the beautiful but also at the awful. It’s a strange vision of paradise, a beauty that encompasses ugliness — not pleasant but rather a state of pure consciousness." on Linda Gregg's "doctrine":

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  13. "The young soldier’s ordeal, the authors contend, offers a glimpse into the dysfunctional and unending prosecution of the United States’s longest war." Nicholas Utzig on Bowe Bergdahl and Matt Farwell and Michael Ames's "American Cipher":

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  14. “I personally admire witchy women. I love witches, women who are allowed to be powerful.” interviews :

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  15. Paying for : Robert Pollin on podcast "Start Making Sense"

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  16. Graeme Simsion () describes what he’s learned about writing autistic characters with empathy:

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  17. “Eyler argues that genuine learning situations grow from immersion, from having students conduct work that is similar to the intellectual labor done by their teachers.” on Joshua R. Eyler's "How Humans Learn":

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  18. "Bowe Bergdahl—indirectly and probably accidentally—did more to bring about negotiations in Afghanistan than any other figure of the war." asks Michael Ames about his new book, “American Cipher,” cowritten with Matt Farwell:

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  19. On Julian Rosefeldt’s collaboration with Cate Blanchett, , a video installation which had its West Coast premiere at Hauser & Wirth:

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  20. "The book review media could always do a better job of highlighting books from unique presses and parts of the world." Azareen Van Der Vlit Oloomi interviews Chad Post:

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