William Seabrook: 4 books

"Perhaps the most honest and haunting accounts of the struggle for mental health in literature." — Observer This dramatic memoir recounts an eight-month stay at a Westchester mental hospital in the early 1930s. William Seabrook, a renowned journalist and explorer, voluntarily committed...

"The best and most thrilling book of exploration that we have ever read … [an] immensely important book." — New York Evening Post "A series of excellent stories about one of the most interesting corners of the American world, told by a keen and sensitive person who knows how to...

A book is occasionally misunderstood or misappraised as something it never had any intention of being. This one is not intended to be a statistical immigration treatise, and still less a controversial polemic. Nor has it any pre tension towards being a technical work on sociology, politics, or economics....

“I dreamed of a snake that was digesting its own head using only math and sleight of imaginary hand, and then I read this, and know now that I’m a gifted psychic.” -Stephen Graham Jones