This week on Unorthodox: A Jewish writer and an Episcopal priest walk into a podcast.
Our Jewish guest is writer and essayist Daphne Merkin, whose latest book is This Close to Happy: A Reckoning With Depression. She tells us what it was like to write such a personal book—Tablet literary critic Adam Kirsch called it “a hybrid of memoir, case study, and confession”—plus the stigma that continues to surround depression in the Jewish community and beyond, and the different ways in which male and female writers have historically depicted depression.