Migraines and Madness: The Upsides and Downsides

September 22nd, 2009

Andrew Levy talks about A BRAIN WIDER THAN THE SKY: A Migraine Diary. Weaving his personal story together with reflections on science, art, history and spirituality, he gives us a surprising portrait of this malady. And David Lovelace tells us why he is “proud to be bipolar” despite the troubles the disorder has brought him. His memoir is SCATTERSHOT: My Bipolar Family.

David Lovelace, SCATTERSHOT and Maggie Jackson, DISTRACTED

August 23rd, 2008

We talk with David Lovelace about his memoir, SCATTERSHOT: My Bipolar Family. And Maggie Jackson tells us about DISTRACTED: The Erosion of Attention and the Coming Dark Age.