Amy Crider’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Catching an Orange

In the Book Notes series, authors create and discuss a music playlist that relates in some way to their recently published book. Previous contributors include Jesmyn Ward, Lauren Groff, Bret Easton Ellis, Celeste Ng, T.C. Boyle, Dana Spiotta, Hanif Abdurraqib Andrew Sean Greer, Roxane Gay, and many others. Amy Crider’s Catching an Orange is an epistolary memoir, a book exceptional in both its form and exploration of how mental illness can shape our lives and creativity. Amanda Eyre Ward wrote of the book: “Once you begin reading Crider’s utterly transfixing, vulnerable, and honest memoir, you won’t be able to stop. Crider’s stylish sentences investigate the space where brilliance and mental illness collide. Her story is heartbreaking and important.” In her own words, here is Amy Crider’s Book Notes music playlist for her memoir Catching an Orange: In January of 1993, I was hospitalized in a psych ward because a manic episode had worsened into a psychotic break. There, I met the…