Well one thing I think Girl, Interrupted certainly did was open up the floodgates for more memoirs of mental illness at the time you published.Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face came out the ...

Disclaimer: This article contains spoilers for “Girl, Interrupted” (1993) by Susanna Kaysen and the 1999 movie adaptation.. Content warning: This article contains mentions of suicide. I’m not sure if ...

The Camera My Mother Gave Me, by Girl, Interrupted author Susanna Kaysen, is a memoir that has nothing to do with either the author's camera or her mother, Marion Winik writes. It is about her vagina.

Girl, Interrupted?More like set, divided. Elisabeth Moss recently dished on the “incredible experience” starring in James Mangold‘s drama based on the memoir of the same title by Susanna ...

You might even think of Girl, Interrupted as Kaysen’s first book—something about a memoir of late adolescence always suggests a first book—but it was actually Kaysen’s third.

"Girl, Interrupted" is almost a good movie. Based on a memoir by Susanna Kaysen, it tells the coming-of-age story of a wealthy young teenager from a proper New England family who in the late 1960s ...

Thirty years ago, American writer Susanna Kaysen published her memoir Girl, Interrupted. It tells the story of her two years inside McLean Hospital in Boston as a psychiatric patient. She was ...

After her spare but powerful 1993 memoir, "Girl, Interrupted," about her two years in a mental hospital, we expect boldness from Susanna Kaysen.