Book · 2009 · Psychology
An Unquiet Mind
A Memoir of Moods and Madness
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My you know, I read uh Nabokov's memoir in high school, and uh I read Kay Redfield Jamison, The Unquiet Mind. I was always fascinated by by stories told in the first person, but I never imagined myself writing in the first person.
Suleika Jaouad · How I Write · May 2026 Listen at 47:01 Why people recommend it
An Unquiet Mind is a memoir by Kay Redfield Jamison that chronicles her personal and professional life while living with bipolar disorder. Suleika Jaouad mentioned the book on the podcast How I Write while discussing the memoirs she read in her youth. She explained that reading this work fueled her fascination with stories told from a first-person perspective, even though she at the time never imagined she would write in the first person herself.
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“my you know, I read uh Nabokov's memoir in high school, and uh I read Kay Redfield Jamison, The Unquiet Mind. I was always fascinated by by stories told in the first person, but I never imagined myself writing in the first person.”
