Pick of the Week: "Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin." by Mac McClelland

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Pick of the Week Schizophrenic. Killer. My Cousin. Mac McClelland • Mother Jones A family history of schizophrenia and the dismantling of mental health treatment in America. The thing that struck me when I first met my cousin Houston was his size. He wasn't much taller than me, if at all, and was slight of frame. On the other side of the visitors' glass, he looked surprisingly small, young for his 22 years. The much more remarkable thing about him turned out to be his vocabulary, vast and lovely, lyrical almost—until it came to an agitated or distracted halt. In any case, all things considered, he seemed altogether extremely unlike a person who had recently murdered someone. The symptoms displayed by Houston (in my family, a cousin of any degree is simply "a cousin"; technically, Houston is my third) in the year preceding this swift and horrific tragedy have since been classified as "a classic onset of schizophrenia." At the time, it was just an alarming mystery. [...] More Picks The Driver Mark Perry • Foreign Policy • Apr 2013 On Hezbollah leader Imad Mughniyeh, “the world’s most wanted terrorist not named Osama bin Laden,” whose death five years ago remains a mystery. The Prophets of Oak Ridge Dan Zak • Washington Post • Apr 2013 The story of three peace activists — a drifter, an 82-year-old nun and a house painter — who penetrated the exterior of Y-12 in Tennessee, supposedly one of the most secure nuclear-weapons facilities in the United States. First Do No Harm Ann Silversides • Maisonneuve • Apr 2013 How OxyContin permeated one small town. The Biggest Week in Bourbontown Michael Lindenberger • Roads & Kingdoms • May 2013 An 8th-generation Louisvillian on the Kentucky Derby, bourbon and the history of his hometown. Tangled Up in Blue Peter Richmond • GQ • Oct 1992 The brief life and complicated death of Tommy Lasorda's gay son. News Longform Podcast: Natasha Vargas-Cooper "Writing is the worst part of this gig for me. I hate sitting down and writing; it's being with my worst self. … But then, when it's over, it's the best. I have no greater joy than reading what I've published—with the exception of some editors who have fucked up my shit." Listen The Longform Guide to Sad Retired Athletes Iverson, DiMaggio, Canseco, TO — a collection of picks on post-career woe.

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