Michael Greenberg
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male
place of birth
New York, The United States
genre
Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction
about this author
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. He lives in New York.
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Hurry Down Sunshine by Michael Greenberg avg rating 3.35 — 741 ratings — published 2008 9 editions |
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Beg, Borrow, Steal: A Writer's Life by Michael Greenberg avg rating 3.75 — 12 ratings — published 2009 3 editions |
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Medical Toxicology Exam Review by Michael Greenberg avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2005 |
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Advanced Engineering Mathematics (2nd Edition) by Michael Greenberg avg rating 2.00 — 2 ratings — published 1998 |
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Painless Vocabulary (Painless Series) by Michael Greenberg avg rating 3.00 — 1 rating — published 2006 |
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Painless Study Techniques by Michael Greenberg avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Der Tag, an dem meine Tochter verrückt wurde by Michael Greenberg, Olaf Pessler avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Hacia el amanecer by Michael Greenberg avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 2009 |
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Local Population and Employment Projection Techniques by Michael Greenberg, Donald A. Krueckeberg , Connie Michaelson avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1978 |
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Graves of tzaddikim in Russia by Michael Greenberg avg rating 0.0 — 0 ratings — published 1989 |
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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)
— Michael Greenberg (Hurry Down Sunshine)
"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)
— Michael Greenberg (Hurry Down Sunshine)
"If Sally had been in an accident or come down with some overtly physical disease, I would not hesitate to tell him about it, confident that his sympathies would flow in my direction as a matter of course. But psychosis defies empathy; few people who have not experienced it up close buy the idea of a behavioral disease. It has the ring of an excuse, a license for self-absorption on the most extreme scale. It suggests that one chooses madness and not the other way around. (86)"
— Michael Greenberg (Hurry Down Sunshine)
— Michael Greenberg (Hurry Down Sunshine)
