“I wrote this very simply to stay alive.”  Alice Carrière’s beautiful and intense memoir of her unconventional childhood, her mental health journey through the failings of the psychiatric system and more that eventually led her to a life of reconciliation and reconstruction. Carrière joins us to talk about why she wrote the book now, the connectivity of writing and reading, her love of audiobooks and more with guest host Jenna Seery.  This episode of Poured Over was hosted by Jenna Seery and mixed by Harry Liang.         Follow us here for new episodes Tuesdays and Thursdays (with occasional Saturdays).    Featured Books (Episode):  Everything/Nothing/Someone by Alice Carrière  The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath  One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey  The Watsons Go to Birmingham- 1963 by Christopher Paul Curtis  Shiloh by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor  The Giver by Lois Lowry  Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre  The Passion According to G.H. by Clarice Lispector  Bloodchild by Octavia E. Butler