Carly Schwartz: I'll Try Anything Twice—Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life

Описание: *Contains Explicit Language*

Join Carly Schwartz, former San Francisco Examiner editor in chief and founding editor of HuffPost’s San Francisco bureau, for the launch of her debut memoir, I’ll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life.

In conversation with KQED’s Sydney Johnson, Schwartz will discuss how her quest to escape from depression and addiction led her on a dizzying international journey through multiple communities and a maze of mental health treatments, before she found recovery where she least expected it. She will explore the universal topics of mental illness stigmatization, substance use denial, privilege, power, and the pressure of navigating a cutthroat career—all through the lens of her wildly unconventional experience.

Described by early readers as “Eat Pray Love gone horribly wrong,” Schwartz’s book offers a vivid, candid, and darkly humorous take on the search for belonging, the definition of success, and the risks we’re willing to take in order to learn how to love ourselves.

March 10, 2026

Speakers

Carly Schwartz
Former Editor in Chief, San Francisco Examiner; Founding Editor, HuffPost San Francisco Bureau; Author, I'll Try Anything Twice: Misadventures of a Self-Medicated Life

Moderator: Sydney Johnson
Reporter, KQED

Photos courtesy the speakers.

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