Part 3 of This Writing Life's interview with Matt Haig changes tack from memories of Christmas past to consider Matt's experience of depression that inspired his non-fiction memoir Reasons to Stay Alive. We begin by discussing general attitudes towards mental health, not least among politicians, before exploring the effect that Reasons to Stay Alive has had on Matt and his readers. ----more----From there we talked about:
Part 4 of 4 to follow.
Episode 130 - Neel Mukherjee: Part 1
Episode 129 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 4 (Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 128 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 3 (Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 127 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 2 (This Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 126 - Meena Kandasamy reads from The Gipsy Goddess
Episode 125 - Meena Kandasamy: Part 1 (This Writing Life Revisited)
Episode 124 - Rick Bass: Part 5 - For a Little While
Episode 123 - Rick Bass: How do we protest Donald Trump, Scott Pruitt and the rest?
Episode 122 - Rick Bass: Part 4 - For a Little While
Episode 121 - Rick Bass: are you optimisitic about human nature?
Episode 120 - Rick Bass: Part 3 - For a Little While
Episode 119 - Rick Bass on his collection For a Little While (and getting lost in writing)
Episode 118 - Rick Bass: Part 2 - For a Little While
Episode 117 - Rick Bass: Part 1 - For a Little While
Episode 116 - Gary Younge: Part 4
Episode 115 - Gary Younge: Part 3
Episode 114 - Gary Younge: Part 2
Episode 113 - Gary Younge: Part 1
Episode 112 - Kevin Sullivan: Part 5
Episode 111 - Kevin Sullivan: Part 4
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