Hornbacher, author of the new memoir “Madness: A Bipolar Life,” and of the Pulitzer-nominated “Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia” has suffered from bipolar disorder her whole life. Her book opens up with her entrenched in a manic episode, engaged in self-cutting. She read from that scene to start her first reading of the tour, and though it resembles the first scene of many of the “fall from grace” memoirs I’ve read, the writing is much more gripping and dramatic. Hornbacher’s new memoir is as much about the writing as it is about recalling her experience–and that, as someone who is a book publishing veteran and read the entire canon, this will get the book, and her, very far.