Featured Book for Lectures: All in My Head |
All in My Head is a black comedy, a candid memoir and an informed journalistic report. It's about my often absurd struggles to try to cure (but ultimately manage) one long 15-year migraine (now diagnosed as "chronic daily headache"), through odysseys through the extremes of both Western and alternative medicine.
Meanwhile, the book stops to address different "big picture" issues involved, such as framing chronic pain as a "women's issue." This book is the first one written on "chronic daily headache," a constant or near-constant headache, that affects about 4-5 percent of the population (and about 10 percent of women of childbearing age).
SALON.COM (4-05): "Her book connects the dots on this issue of women and chronic pain in a way nobody else has done." THE WOMEN'S REVIEW OF BOOKS (5-06) describes the book as "exhaustively researched, comprehensive in its cultural analysis, effectively organized, engagingly written, and, well, a riot." Read more reviews and blurbs hereOrder the book here
Created on 02/03/2005 02:04 PM by carolsim
Updated on 02/05/2009 02:09 AM by paulakamen
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Announcements |
Paula Kamen on C-SPAN Book TV |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 04/27/2009 09:49 PM
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| Discussion biography of Iris Chang. First original airing: April 27, 2008. Interviewed March 28, 2009, at Organization of American Historians conference in Seattle. Also available on youtube.com. |
AUTHOR APPEARANCES AT BOOK GROUPS/DISCUSSION GUIDE |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 11/03/2008 08:19 PM
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I'm available to be a guest at book groups discussing the new paperback of
Finding Iris Chang, which covers issues of friendship, women's ambition, Asian studies and mental illness. That's either in person in the Chicago area or via phone elsewhere.
For discussion guide, click text here
For To see a report by Clare Helene describing a group I attended late last year, Click Text Here (Dec. 17 entry).
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Paperback of "Finding Iris Chang" released in December 2008 |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 12/03/2008 03:33 AM
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A Booksense Pick, Harvard Bookstore Bestseller, "favorite book of 2007" from the Chicago Tribune. Called "a moving bio" by Entertainment Weekly (12/19/08)
“Paula Kamen digs deep into the ambitious life and tragic death of her most successful friend…[and] offers the same meticulous attention to detail and thorough immersion in primary sources that distinguishes Chang’s exhaustively researched books.”—Chicago Reader
For review blurbs, see official press release.
For links to media coverage, click text here.
To purchase, click text here. |
Discussion with alumni group |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 06/30/2009 09:44 AM
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University of Illinois, Bay Area chapter
Lunchtime discussion of book on Iris Chang.
Noon PST
Event occurs on 08/07/2009 from 12:00 PM to 01:00 PM.
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Printer's Row Lit Fest |
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Posted by: paulakamen on 05/25/2009 12:35 PM
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Paula "in conversation with" Andrew Levy, author of A Brain Wider than the Sky: A Migraine Diary
Printer's Row Lit Fest
University Center/River Room, 525 South State Street (State and Harrison streets)
festival website.
Event occurs on 05/25/2009 from 02:30 PM to 03:30 PM.
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