The Moth Podcast: Andrew Solomon, Notes on an Exorcism

While studying treatments for depression in rural Africa, Solomon has an overly intimate encounter with a ram. Andrew Solomon is the author of “The Irony Tower: Soviet Artists in a Time of Glasnost” and “A Stone Boat”. His most recent book, “The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression” was awarded the 2001 National Book Award, and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; it has been published in 24 languages and received 14 additional national awards. He is working on a book entitled, “A Dozen Kinds of Love: Raising Challenging Children”.