Jonathan Rosen Talks About His Blockbuster Book and the Metaphors of Madness
A tale of dreams and horror emerges as an American classic for our times.

Jonathan Rosen no longer believes that “the world exists to be put in a book,” but he has written one — “The Best Minds: A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions” — that could do for schizophrenia what Ernest Hemingway’s “Death in the Afternoon” did for bullfighting: serve as the definitive account and emerge as an American classic.
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