Paean to a Jan. 8th New Yorker piece describing the writer’s mental illness and psychiatric hospitalizations. “Daphne Merkin bravely gives words to the silent scream and deserves not our pity,
not our voyeurism, but—better than our sympathy—our envy and admiration of her
sharp eye and sharper tongue. We need her to stay with us for a very long time.” The New York Observer