Mindy Lewis's Books
May.01.2009
38 contemporary writers dish the dirt on cleaning and housekeeping in this anthology of personal essays: Ann Hood, Joyce Maynard, Rebecca Walker, Richard Goodman, Louise DeSalvo, Janice Eidus, Rebecca McClanahan, Kyoko Mori, Pamela Paul, Alissa Quart, Sally Koslow – to name but a few – share their housekeeping secrets, pet peeves and obsessions. This thought-provoking collection of...
Nov.16.2003
LIFE INSIDE, a memoir by Mindy Lewis (Atria Books, 2002; Washington Square Press, 2003; 358 pgs.), explores the inner life of an adolescent girl confined for 27 months to the adolescent unit of the NYS Psychiatric Institute in the mid-1960s. A vivid first person exploration of life inside a psychiatric hospital and the thirty years afterward, LIFE INSIDE also explores the aftermath...
Complex, chilling, luminous: not one false step. *starred Kirkus Review of Life Inside: A Memoir”
About Mindy
Mindy Lewis is the author of Life Inside: A Memoir (Atria Books 2002, Washington Square Press 2003) and the editor of DIRT: The Quirks, Habits and Passions of Keeping House, an anthology of personal essays by contemporary writers (Seal Press 2009). Her essays...