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How Stories Depict Mental Illness

by juliehartig | Aug, 2026 | Reading Companions | Books, Authors, and Ideas in Conversation

Most of us have, whether we noticed or not, been reading about mental illness our whole lives. It’s in the books we were assigned in school, the horror novels we read under the covers, the book club picks passed around with wine. What I couldn’t stop...

I Know This Much Is True, Mine Is Too

by juliehartig | Jul, 2026 | Reading Companions | Books, Authors, and Ideas in Conversation

Deep in the edit of my first draft of Hope and Madness, a critique partner suggested I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb as a possible comp title. I’ve read his works She’s Come Undone and The Hour I First Believed, but was unfamiliar with this book published in...

Outside Looking In: Crazy by Pete Earley

by juliehartig | Jun, 2026 | Reading Companions | Books, Authors, and Ideas in Conversation

Though Pete Earley is a New York Times bestselling author and his book Crazy: A Father’s Search Through America’s Mental Health Madness was a 2007 Pulitzer Prize finalist, I didn’t find this book through normal mainstream channels. Not the NY Times or Amazon best...

How Stories Depict Mental Illness

I Know This Much Is True, Mine Is Too

Outside Looking In: Crazy by Pete Earley

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