X
How do I get paid? Learn about our new Secured Funds Program!
  View site in English, Español, or Français
The fair-trade ticketing company.
Sign Me Up!  |  Log In
 
Find An Event Create Your Event Help
 
Mark Vonnegut: Just Like Someone WIthout Mental Illness Only More So, A Memoir
Hillside Club
Berkeley, CA
Share this event:
Get Tickets
There are no active dates for this event.


Event

Mark Vonnegut: Just Like Someone WIthout Mental Illness Only More So, A Memoir
KPFA Radio presents

Mark Vonnegut

"Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So"

Hosted by Richard Wolinsky

"being Kurt Vonnegut's son and suffering episodes of psychosisshape, but don't confine, this mordantly witty, slightly subversive memoir. Mark Vonnegut writes with a matter-of-fact absurdism, champions misfits, and attacks the system. All his own are Vonnegut's hard-won insights into the value of a humble, useful life picked up from pieces."  Publishers Weekly

Just Like Someone Without Mental Illness Only More So is a searingly amusing, intimate account of growing up with Kurt Vonnegut, coping with mental illness, finding a calling as a pediatrician, and learning that willpower alone isn't enough to get us through. Mark felt compelled to write his new memoir because, "The death of my father was a turning point. I hope the book is something Kurt can be proud of from heaven. I am trying to tell the truth about mental illness."

After Mark Vonnegut received a B.A. in Religion from Swarthmore, he started a commune in British Columbia, and shortly thereafter had his first psychotic break. Originally diagnosed as suffering from schizophrenia, he was subsequently diagnosed as Manic Depressive (the medically preferred term is now Bipolar). His book about this  The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity  named an ALA Notable Book, was declared by The New York Times to be "required reading for those who want to understand insanity from the inside."

Vonnegut is a primary care pediatrician in Massachusetts. He has served on the Harvard Medical School Admissions Committee, and is currently an instructor in Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. He has been published in the New England Journal of Medicine and the Boston Globe. He is married and has three sons. He paints, plays the saxophone, and likes walking his dog.

$12 advance tickets: brownpapertickets.com :: 800-838-3006
or Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway's, Moe's
Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore,
in SF: Modern Times ($15 door)

Location

Hillside Club
2286 Cedar St
Berkeley, CA 94709
United States

Categories

Arts > Literary

Non-Smoking: Yes!
Wheelchair Accessible: Yes!

Contact

Owner: KPFA Radio 94.1 FM
On BPT Since: Sep 14, 2007
 
Ken Preston
kpfa.org/events


Contact us
Email
support@brownpapertickets.com
Phone
1-800-838-3006 (Temporarily Unavailable)
Resources
Developers
Help
Ticket Buyers
Track Your Order
Browse Events
Locations
Event Producers
Create an Event
Pricing
Services
Buy Pre-Printed Tickets
The Venue List
Find out about local events
Get daily or weekly email notifications of new and discounted events in your neighborhood.
Sign up for local events
Connect with us
Follow us on Facebook
Follow us on Twitter
Follow us on Instagram
Watch us on YouTube
Get to know us
Use of this service is subject to the Terms of Usage, Privacy Policy, and Cookie Policy of Brown Paper Tickets. All rights reserved. © 2000-2022 Mobile EN ES FR