Bibliophobia: A Memoir by Sarah Chihaya (2/4/25)

"A must for the obsessive reader." Elif Batuman, author of Either/Or and The IdiotA "soul-baring, witty, and slyly provocative"* memoir about reading, writing, and depression (Whiting Foundation)"Bibliophobia: occasionally manifests as an acute, literal fear of books, though more frequently develops as a generalized anxiety about reading in patients who have previously experienced profound—perhaps too profound—attachments to books and literature… You may have bibliophobia if you frequently experience intense reactions to books that somehow act on you, or activate you, in ways that you suspect are unhealthy or hurtful—or at times, simply bad for you. And yet, they are necessary; you would not be you without them.”Have you ever read a book and felt so gutted by it that you knew you’d never recover? That it made you sit differently in your own skin? A book that complicated everything you believed in and changed the way you read the world around you forever? This is what Sarah Chihaya call