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Andrew Solomon

By Paula GordonTue, 2009-08-25 20:15

...writer/reporter. Mr. Solomon's best-seller, The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, won the National Book Award in 2001. Educated at Yale and Cambridge Universities, Mr. Solomon writes regularly for The New York Times Magazine as well as The New Yorker and ArtForm. He is author of The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost and a novel which was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times First Fiction Award.

Depressed? Do NOT Let It Get You Down

By Paula GordonTue, 2009-08-25 21:10

Guest: Andrew Solomon

Everyone has some degree of vulnerability to depression, Andrew Solomon reports. We are all touched by it, directly or indirectly. It's true, he says, regardless of culture, class, or where one finds oneself in life. Mr. Solomon set out to describe his own experience with depression as accurately and clearly as he could -- he thought it gave him a certain authority as well as data. He also wanted to make available, objectively and lucidly, both the findings of modern science and other people's experiences. He succeeded on all counts.

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