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10% Happier with Dan Harris
The author wrote this memoir about living with mental illness, which was intertwined with funny stories from his life and information about food. He wrote it because the response to an essay he posted online about his bipolar disorder and Julia Child was overwhelmingly positive, convincing him he needed to tell the full story.
And so he's written this new book called Notes on a Banana in which he talks about dealing with this situation and the plot of the book is intertwined with lots of funny stories from his life and lots...
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Episode: David Leite, Food Writer, Memoirist (LIVE!)
The author wrote this memoir about living with mental illness, which was intertwined with funny stories from his life and information about food. He wrote it because the response to an essay he posted online about his bipolar disorder and Julia Child was overwhelmingly positive, convincing him he needed to tell the full story.
And so he's written this new book called Notes on a Banana in which he talks about dealing with this situation and the plot of the book is intertwined with lots of funny stories from his life and lots of stuff about food.
Notes on a Banana comes from Mama Leet, my mother, who ever since I was very young she would have a banana with something written on it every morning at my breakfast spot at the table.
I posted something on my blog called Bipolar Disorder and Julia Child My Therapist.
It is funny and you tell you weave in food, humor and a third ingredient that very few people would have ever predicted but mental illness.
To me writing this book was like crawling on my belly across broken glass. It was so good.