title: Nervous System: Or Losing My Mind in Literature
author: jan-lars-jensen
description: Within the literature of madness, there has never been a memoir as wrenching and mordantly humorous as Jan Lars Jensens Nervous System. A quiet librarian who struck publishing gold with his first novel, Jensen felt as if something had come unhinged in his mind. The rush of ideas and language felt like losing, willy-nilly, a chunk of his mental stability. But true madness didnt come until the countdown to his books release into the world.
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