She came to London to promote Prozac Nation, the memoir that would make her famous, the best book she wrote, which was about the “United States of Depression”. I guess she wanted to be like the rock stars she had idolised and written about and slept with. Indeed, the bits in Prozac Nation where she bangs on and on about Bruce Springsteen are rather dull. Mental illness must always be individualised, which is why the title of Wurtzel’s book, Prozac Nation, is still so powerful. America, land of the free to be stupid | Elizabeth Wurtzel Read moreEveryone else was just a bit player.

Source: The Guardian January 08, 2020 11:26 UTC