Mindworks: Daniel Smith on A Memoir of Anxiety, Susannah Cahalan on My Month of Madness, and David Finch on One Man’s Quest To Be A Better Husband.
Sunday, Nov. 18, 4:30 p.m., Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Daniel Smith
For more than 40 million Americans like Daniel Smith, the symptoms of anxiety—sweaty palms, heart palpitations, an unstoppable assault of irrational fears—are everyday companions. In Monkey Mind: A Memoir of Anxiety (Simon & Schuster; $25.00) Smith articulates what it is like to live with anxiety, defanging the disease with humor, traveling through its demonic layers, and evocatively expressing its self-destructive absurdities and painful internal coherence. “A true treasure-trove of insight laced with humor and polished prose.” —Kirkus starred review. Smith is the author of Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Hearing Voices and the Borders of Sanity.
Susannah Cahalan
Susannah Cahalan’s Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness (Free Press, $25.00) is a harrowing story of a real medical nightmare. Cahalan was a healthy twenty-four-year-old at the beginning of her first serious relationship and a promising career at The New York Post when she started getting strange symptoms, which began as memory loss and paranoia and progressed to psychosis and near-death catatonia. A million dollars’ worth of medical tests revealed nothing—until she was rescued by the lucky, ingenious intervention of an extraordinary doctor. Cahalan is a news reporter at the New York Post whose award-winning work has also been featured in The New York Times.
David Finch
Five years into his marriage, David Finch, author of the memoir Journal of Best Practices (Scribner, $25.00) and his wife learn that he has Asperger Syndrome. The diagnosis explains David’s ever-growing list of quirks and compulsions, but it doesn’t make him easier to live with. Determined to change, David sets out to understand Asperger Syndrome and learn to be a better husband. “His often-hilarious efforts to understand and cope with his condition will resonate with every guy whose wife has ever asked him, “What the hell were you THINKING?”— Dave Barry. A former semiconductor engineer, Finch writes a relationship blog for Psychology Today and lectures around the country about living life with autism.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Room 8302 (Building 8, 3rd Floor)
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