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Michael Greenberg

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New York, The United States

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male

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http://michaelgreenberg.org

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Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction

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A native New Yorker, Michael Greenberg is a columnist for the Times Literary Supplement (London), where his wide-ranging essays have been appearing since 2003. His fiction, criticism and travel pieces have been published in such disparate places as O Magazine, Bomb, The Village Voice, and the Boston Review.

His book Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer’s Life was published by Other Press in September 2009.

Greenberg’s memoir, Hurry Down Sunshine, about his teenage daughter’s sudden psychotic break, was published by Other Press in 2008, and has been sold in seventeen countries around the world. It will be published in a paperback edition by Vintage Books in 2009.

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Average rating: 3.36 · 2,311 ratings · 451 reviews · 2 distinct works · Similar authors

	Hurry Down Sunshine 3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 2,173 ratings — published 2008 — 19 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life 3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 139 ratings — published 2009 — 6 editions	Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by Michael Greenberg

“It's something of a sacrilege nowadays to speak of insanity as anything but the chemical brain disease that on one level it is. But there were moments with my daughter when I had the distressed sense of being in the presence of a rare force of nature, such as a great blizzard or flood: destructive, but in its way astounding too. (4)”
― Michael Greenberg, Hurry Down Sunshine

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“Eugen Bleuler (who in 1911 coined the word 'schizophrenia') once said that in the end his patients were stranger to him than the birds in his garden. But if they're strangers to us, what are we to them? (26)”
― Michael Greenberg, Hurry Down Sunshine

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“She thinks that if she gives it up, she'll lose the great abilities she believes she's acquired. It's a terrible paradox really: the mind falls in love with psychosis. The evil seduction, I call it. (186)”
― Michael Greenberg, Hurry Down Sunshine

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