People arrive at the ER every day looking for my help, and the uncomfortable truth is that I’m often so overwhelmed that I struggle to connect with them.
Readings
The author of If I Survive You on the gift of humour, the impact of the housing crisis, and family legacy.
I’m the first woman in the world to get a tattoo because she’s sad! I invented it!
The author of Eat Your Mind, the first full-scale authorized biography of Kathy Acker, on renewed relevance and creative capaciousness.
Will there ever be a filmmaker more adamant about emulating the literary canon?
John Irving on trans heroes, the nature of ghosts, and a career as a worst-case scenario guy.
The author of The Tiger and the Cage on writing about her hysterectomy, the absurdities of medical metaphor, and the illness narratives that liberate and limit us.
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