Writing about the unthinkable pain of child suicides
The tendency of bullies to be desperate was one of the real revelations.
May 2022
Press: All Sources
Apr 2022
Video: Democracy Now! Subway Shooting Highlights NYC and Nation’s Failure to Address Growing Mental Health Crisis
“Often people who commit homicide are expressing their own despair, their own internal mental health problems, as well as expressing anger and hatred and bias.”
Mar 2022
Andrew Solomon on ‘making your children feel loved’ and the power of parental listening
“It’s easy to legislate against a group of people in the abstract and hard to face up to the individual human cost of doing so. So we have to bring up the next generation of activists who will fight for rights that I believe can be attained.”
Mar 2022
Spot Media Interviews Andrew Solomon: Why Do People Obey Dictators?
It is not easy to overthrow an oppressive leadership. It’s possible, but it’s not easy at all. People are afraid. And they are rightly afraid. Putin is a bully who remembers the image of Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole in the ground and Gaddafi being dragged out of a sewer.
Dec 2021
Audio: MSNBC: On the push to ban “offensive” books from Texas public libraries
Andrew Solomon joins MSNBC host Alicia Menendez and Futuro Media founder Maria Hinojosa to discuss the movement to ban books on human sexuality, race and American history, and the profoundly worrisome rise of authoritarian sentiment in the United States.
Dec 2021
Video: Amanpour: ‘Freedom of speech is being annihilated,’ warns author
Andrew Solomon’s bestselling book about diverse families, Far From the Tree, has been targeted by a Texas state lawmaker. Solomon says the effort to blacklist and ban books shows “we are in the period of backlash”.
Jun 2021
Audio: The Secret Life of Writers: Andrew Solomon on a Lifetime Writing about Humanity
Jemma Birrell of Tablo Publishing interviews Andrew Solomon on the body of his work, what he has been working on and the books he might write in the future.
Jun 2021
Audio: Mental Illness Happy Hour: The Intersection of Mental Health & LGBTQ+ Advocacy
Andrew Solomon, Juan Acosta and host Paul Gilmartin discuss mental health advocacy, LGBTQ+ advocacy, and how these issues overlap.
Jun 2021
Audio: Gravity Podcast: On Families of All Kinds
Lucy Kalanithi and Andrew Solomon explore what becomes possible when we bust the myth of the ideal nuclear family.
Apr 2021
Audio: New York Times Book Review Podcast: The Invention of Miracles
Andrew Solomon joins New York Times Book Review Podcast host Pamela Paul to discuss Katie Booth’s new biography of Alexander Graham Bell, The Invention of Miracles.
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