Photographer Anna Marie Tendler Channels ‘Heartbreak and Rage’ in New Memoir ‘Men Have Called Her Crazy’

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Anna Marie Tendler has channeled her “heartbreak and rage” in a new memoir titled “Men Have Called Her Crazy.” Tendler, an artist who is also the ex-wife of comedian John Mulaney, checked herself into a psychiatry hospital in early 2021 following a year of struggling with anxiety, depression and self harm.

While there, she underwent myriad psychological tests, participated in numerous therapy sessions, connected with fellow patients and experienced profound breakthroughs, such as when a doctor noted, “There is a you inside that feels invisible to those looking at you from the outside.” In her debut book, Tendler recounts her hospital experience as well as pivotal moments in her life that preceded and followed.

As the title suggests, many of these moments are impacted by men: unrequited love in high school; the twenty-eight-year-old she lost her virginity to when she was sixteen; the frustrations and absurdities of dating in her mid-thirties; and her decision to freeze her eggs as all her friends were starting families. “I have been writing this book for two years,” Tendler, wrote on Instagram Tuesday morning. “More accurately though I have been writing it for close to four decades.