Press and Reviews

Television:

ABC News– Good Morning America- Interview With Diane Sawyer (March 24, 2009):

www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/PainManagement/story?id=7152500&page=1

Fox 2 (St. Louis)- AM Show (March 26, 2009): http://www.fox2now.com/news/morningshow/

(Click on “Dealing With Chronic Pain”)

National Radio:

ABC Network/XM/SIRIUS “Good Morning America Radio” (March 24, 2009)

Focus Communications “Touch of Grey” (April 20, 2009) (national syndication, heard on WABC-AM in NYC, KRLA in Los Angeles)

Local Radio:

Oxford, NC—WCBQ-AM/WHNC-AM “The Alvin Jones Show” (May 2009)

Miami, FL NPR:—WLRN-FM “Topical Currents” (June 2009)

St. Louis: KMOX “Total Information AM” (April 8, 2009)

Phoenix/Tempe, AZ: KNIX-102.5 FM, KYOT-95.5FM; KOY-1230 AM “Valley Views” (May 10, 2009)

St. Louis: KDHX “Literature for the Halibut” (May 2009)

Nassau, NY: WHPC “Your Family’s Health”

St. Louis: KWMU Interview (April 24, 2009)

Reviews:

New York Times (March 31, 2009): “compulsively readable…Literate, fraught and unsettling.”

For full review: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/31/health/31book.html?ref=science

Wall Street Journal (March 26, 2009):”a memoir that is a both a chronicle of physical devastation and a metaphysical journey.”

For full review: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123802355924342085.html

People Magazine (April 20, 2009): “the results are stirring.”

For full review: http://m.people.com/detail.jsp?key=1434338&rc=books&cm=true1

The Chronicle of Higher Education (March 13, 2009): “a searing, lyrical, visceral account”

USA Today (April 2, 2009): http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2009-04-01-books-roundup_N.htm

Publishers Weekly: “Engaging . . . a revealing, personal journey through physical trauma.”

Booklist: “Greenberg’s account of her efforts to be cured of chronic neck pain ought to inspire chronic pain sufferers not to give up… A bold story that proves it pays to persevere.”

Kirkus Reviews: “Absorbing memoir of special interest to anyone living with chronic pain.”

Library Journal: “In this heartbreaking, inspiring story of the lack of resources and understanding available to chronic pain sufferers, Greenberg finds the determination to live life to the fullest. Lyrical, vivid writing makes this an essential read for those marginalized by the health-care system and medical providers alike.”

ABC News: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=7155625&page=1

The Daily Beast– Recommended (March 24, 2009)

www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-24/the-daily-beast-recommends-2/ - 82k -

St. Louis Post Dispatch (March 24, 2009):

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/entertainment/stories.nsf/books/story/E808D058DC8088408625757F007E0372

The Birmingham News:

http://www.al.com/health-fitness/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/living/1237450572274270.xml&coll=2

CUNY Newswire (June 2009): “On The ‘Perfect Misery’ of Pain.” For full article: http://web.cuny.edu/news/cm-archive/summer09/book-talk.html

Interviews:

WowOwow: A Conversation with Cynthia MacFadden (April 13, 2009):

http://www.wowowow.com/entertainment/chronic-pain-body-broken-lynne-greenberg-cynthia-mcfadden-interview-266575?hp=266575

Authorlink Interview (May 2009): http://www.authorlink.com/articles/item/689

Aolhealth.com Interview (May 2009): http://www.aolhealth.com/condition-center/chronic-pain/body-broken/

Brooklyn Eagle (July 2009): http://www.brooklyneagle.com/archive/category.php?category_id=27&id=27158

St. Louis Beacon (March 24, 2009): “Pain never ends - neither does life’s passion”

Recommended and Other Press:

USA Today - Winter Book Selection (March 24, 2009)

Reader’s Digest - Great Reads for March

Pain Community News: Newsletter of the American Pain Foundation (Summer 2009) (recommended book). For full review: http://www.painfoundation.org/Publications/PCN09Summer.pdf

About.com (April 16, 2009): http://backandneck.about.com/od/familyandfriends/gr/bodybroken.htm

IPL (April 2009): http://iplstaff.blogspot.com/2009/04/body-broken-by-lynne-greenberg-921.html

Somebody Heal Me (May 2009): http://somebodyhealme.dianalee.net/

BettyConfidential (Shine from Yahoo) (April 2009) “Managing Chronic Pain”:  http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/none/managing-chronic-pain-452449/

Rosanne Cash Picks for May 2009;; http://rosannecash.com/indexee.php/site/gallery/268/

Northeast Surf Magazine: http://www.easternsurf.com/blahs135.html

The GalleyCat: http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/party_hopping/scene_lynne_greenbergs_the_body_broken_party_100807.asp?c=rss

Advance Praise:

“We are all looking for lessons in courage. And family. And faith that some of our sweetest hours will come on the darkest days. All are here in Lynne Greenberg’s razor-sharp memoir of life and pain and the miracle of a family bound together by love.”
–Diane Sawyer, ABC News

“As a fellow survivor of a body broken, I find Greenberg’s memoir to be unsparing, accurate, and moving, especially in depicting her struggle to come to terms with residual chronic pain.”
–Maxine Kumin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Inside the Halo and Beyond: The Anatomy of a Recovery

“This book describes with shattering clarity the experience of relentless, horrifying pain. Drawing on a vast range of poetic sources, it gives voice both to the author’s loss of bodily and psychic coherence and to the process of redemption that followed, and it is written with lyricism, poignance, and wit. A rare testimony to the enmeshment of our fragility and our strength, it will provide crucial solace to those who are in pain, and insight to those who love them.”
–Andrew Solomon, National Book Award-winning author of The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression