Lit Gloss: Why Do These Books Exist?
Aug 1 2008 | Comments 4
liz | 11:26 AM | Uncategorized
The Trouble with Spikol | Make Major Moves | PW Style | Cup o'Joel
Liz Spikol was born in Philadelphia sometime in the 20th century. She started writing about her experience as a person with mental illness in 1999, while employed at Philadelphia Weekly as the paper’s managing editor. Aside from serving as that paper’s web editor, music editor, staff writer, senior editor, executive editor and a host of other random roles that she couldn’t make up her mind about, she has also worked as a Spanish teacher, as a Certified Peer Specialist during Philly’s system-wide transformation and as a communications specialist for a prison reform organization. Currently, she works at the Mental Health Association of Southeastern Pennsylvania and writes book reviews for PW. This blog — named one of the Top 10 Bipolar Blogs of 2007 and 2008 by PsychCentral — is about medications, schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, OCD, PTSD, SAD (and many other acronyms), mad pride, Big Pharma, celebrities, hospitals, stigma and the recovery movement. And other stuff.
I’m assuming that it’s a rhetorical question.
Still, you forgot to review “Cooking with Pooh”.
You included “Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness” on your video.
Thought you and your readers might want to know that it was one of two finalists for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in nonfiction: http://www.peteearley.com/home/.
LMAO Sheer brilliance.
Liz,
Love the “Flash” T-shirt! Coincidentally, I’ve been watching the first and (sadly)only season of that great 1990s network TV show on DVD over the past few days.
By the way, Cynthia Twist (ex-wife of John Lennon)wrote a memoir of their married life entitled “A Twist of Lennon.” Hmmm.
Dennis
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