Over the course of their career, journalist P.E. Moskowitz has written about everything from Curb Your Enthusiasm to trans hype houses . But their latest and most ambitious project—the book Breaking Awake: A Reporter’s Search for a New Life, and a New World, Through Drugs, which is out now from Simon & Schuster—shares the most DNA with their popular newsletter, Mental Hellth , an examination of the limitations of current medical and self-help modalities. Its tagline? “You’re not crazy, the world is.”

The same thesis undergirds much of Breaking Awake , which moves seamlessly from Moskowitz’s own experience with drugs of various sorts to their traumatic experience living through the 2017 attack on Charlottesville and their reporting on how people around the United States and b

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