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The New York Times > Books > Books of The Times | 'Hello to All That': On Two Fronts, Sarajevo and Depression

ohn Falk hit the ground running when he landed in Sarajevo in August 1993. Dressed in body armor and helmet, he carried a single duffel bag packed with the bare necessities: a few clothes, some recording equipment, a 35-millimeter camera and, most important, a year's supply of Zoloft stuffed into a tube sock.Mr. Falk had no qualifications whatever as a journalist, but in a way he was the right man in the right place. Who better to report from the most depressing city on earth than one of the most depressed human beings in the Western world?Advertisement var ACE_AR = {Site: '738117', Size: '300250'}; Mr. Falk had been struggling with crippling depression for more than a decade. It descended ...

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