Frank Bures

press release:

A Room of One's Own is delighted to welcome former Madisonian (and former Avol's employee!) Frank Bures for a reading from his new book, The Geography of Madness!

Jon Ronson meets David Grann: a fascinating, wildly entertaining adventure and travel story about how culture can make us believe very strange things.

The Geography of Madness is an investigation of "culture-bound" syndromes, which are far stranger than they sound. Why is it, for example, that some men believe, against all reason, that vandals stole their penises, even though they're in good physical shape? In The Geography of Madness, acclaimed magazine writer Frank Bures travels around the world to trace culture-bound syndromes to their sources-and in the process, tells a remarkable story about the strange things all of us believe.