Crazy Heroines Should Stay That Way, and Other News

No cures allowed. From the movie poster for I Never Promised You a Rose Garden.

It’s the fiftieth anniversary of Joanne Greenberg’s I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, a YA novel about her time as a schizophrenic teen. “Not long after I Never Promised You a Rose Garden became canonical, it also became a lightning rod … Greenberg claimed full recovery, and many psychiatric professionals worried that this would inspire a false and dangerous hope. Schizophrenics, they said, simply cannot recover.”
A new location (and ambiance) for Foyles, “London’s temple of books”: “Light streams down from rooftop windows on to a spacious white-walled atrium catching the edge of a 1930s dancefloor like a spotlight. It’s a huge change of scene for Foyles … which was once famed for dark forbidding bookshelves and a payment system so arcane that many visitors chose to steal rather than buy their favored paperback.”
Chester Nez, the last of the original Navajo code-talkers, has died at ninety-three.
What if it were your job to deliver bad news all day? You would succumb to a deep and enduring existential malaise, experts say.
“The best way to think about the universe is as a multidimensional space-time loaf.”

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