The Rapids is a cultural history of manic depression twinned with a personal narrative told through an innovative approach to writing memoir.

Ways of Being Seen
1. Let us now open on a naked man on a street corner in San Diego

Ways of Reading
2. Black backpack, crowbar, torch, book
3. A short tour through the cultural history of manic depression
4. Rapid thought generator: Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift and Kanye West’s The Life of Pablo

Ways of Seeing
5. It’s just too fucking too: Mania in cinema and the films of Paul Thomas Anderson
6. Under her influence

Ways of Being
7. Speak, Spalding!
8. The Reckoning
9. Carrie F [October 21, 1956-December 27, 2016]

Two Lives
10. This is all to say that I do not know the story at all

A Life
11. The rapids: a coda in cuts

Author’s note
Works consulted
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