If there is a sub-genre of memoir composed to the first-hand reports of people who have suffered from and recovered from mental illness, I've not seen much of it. Mark Vonnegut, a pediatrician and the son of author Kurt Vonnegut, reports on his life with bipolar affective disorder (manic depressi...
—S. Adams and H. Smith TOWN AGAIN. “Did you come down for the fight?” One of Bea’s kids talking. “The fight?” “The heavyweight championship, Ali vs. Frazier.” “No. I didn’t even know there was going to be one.” Well, one more thing along with the mill, automobiles, the war, that my craziness di...