One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing, by Diane Ackerman; Norton; 322 pp.; $26.95By Bill WilliamsWhen a blood clot lodges in the brain, patients may lose their ability to speak or write, a devastating setback for anyone, but particularly so for an author.Husband-and-wife authors Diane Ackerman and Paul West had … [Read more...]
Book review: Grief memoir moving, but oddly unhelpful
By Bill Williams Kay Redfield Jamison has often written and spoken eloquently about her lifelong struggle with manic depression, otherwise known as bipolar illness.In her new book, Nothing Was the Same: A Memoir, she writes with the same honesty and passion about coping with the death of her husband, Richard Wyatt, from cancer. Both were well-known psychiatrists at Johns … [Read more...]