
Succo Pazzo
You know it’s a good bar when you can smell the fishmongers and the motorway is so close it puts out cigarettes and ruffles the old boy’s hair.




Shred Sisters’ Review
As an author, Betsy Lerner first burst onto the scene in 2000 with the nonfiction The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers which sent seismic shock waves of brutal honesty and savage humor emanating across the publishing world.

Madnesses Again
Head Nurse woke us at six am for our meds. We stood in line for them to dope us up again and then waited for breakfast while others, groggy and edgy, yelled for their packs of smokes. We’d soon chow, then share cigs, the communal currency of the madhouse. Some tried to socialize, but when you’re crazy, it’s rough – you never know what to expect from others. Anything from comatose to violent to dazed from the EST, you just never knew.


"Sonnet when the brain itself can’t hurt"
The paralytic that they use to keep / you from breaking a limb during the ECT seizure


