Janice Erlbaum | Author of Girlbomb: A Halfway Homeless Memoir

Several Very Short Bios of the Author

Type art by Stephanie Weinberger

Author of Girlbomb and other books.

Briefly unhoused teen milking it for decades.

Bereaved daughter of the spectacularly deranged.

Privileged, mewling crybaby; meanwhile, global suffering.

My teenage nightmare—middle-aged, married homebody.

Torture survivor, but that’s another story.

Memoirist since age three, never stopping

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 12:30h

Categories: memoir

Tags: #memoir, #sixwordmemoir

15. “My mother is dead, again.”

I gave up on writing about my mother after MY MOTHER IS CRAZY was rejected in 2010. I wrote two other books instead — a novel for adults, and a novel for tweens.

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14b. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part Two

For the seventeen years I worked with Judith, I thought therapy was like school. You put in the hours to master the concepts, and then you passed the test. Once you learned some

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14a. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part One

My therapist Judith and I argued for years over her calling my mother “psychotic.” My mother, I maintained, was a fucked-up person, but she wasn’t psychotic. Judith nev

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Several Very Short Bios of the Author

Posted on Tuesday, January 20, 2026 at 12:30h

Categories: memoir

Tags: #memoir, #sixwordmemoir

15. “My mother is dead, again.”

14b. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part Two

14a. The Monotonous, Grinding Mechanics of Long-Term Talk Therapy: A Partial Summary, Part One