Tucson Festival of Books

Heady Challenges


Face blindness. Schizophrenia. Women reduced to "crazy chick" or "madwoman." Without a doubt, mental health diagnoses carry challenges and social stigmas. Join these authors as they explore family histories of mental illness and medical diagnoses, as well as their own personal battles.


Panelists
Sadie Dingfelder

Sadie Dingfelder is a freelance science journalist. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, the Washington Post and Washingtonian magazine. A former staff reporter at the Washington Post Express, Dingfelder served as senior science writer at the Monitor on Psychology magazine, covering new findings in neuroscience, cognitive science, and ethology for members of the American Psychological Association....

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Sarah LaBrie

Author of "No One Gets to Fall Apart," Sarah LaBrie' is a Texas writer, whose libretti have been performed at Walt Disney Concert Hall. Her fiction appears in Guernica, The Literary Review and the Los Angeles Review of Books....

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Suzanne Scanlon

Suzanne Scanlon's memoir, "Committed: On Meaning and Madwomen," is her most recent work. She is also the author of two novels: "Her 37th Year, An Index," and "Promising Young Women." Some places her work has appeared include: Granta, The Guardian, The Believer, BOMB, The Iowa Review, Electric Literature, Fence, Harper's Bazaar and Literary Hub....

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Books:
Do I Know You?
A Faceblind Reporter's Journey Into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination
Sadie Dingfelder
Science / Medicine / Technology
Little Brown
June 2024
ISBN 9780316545143
304 pages

No One Gets to Fall Apart
A Memoir
Sarah LaBrie
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
HarperCollins/Harper
October 2024
ISBN 9780063280724
224 pages
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Committed
On Meaning and Madwomen
Suzanne Scanlon
Memoir / Essays / Creative Nonfiction
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
April 2024
ISBN 9780593469101
368 pages
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