Martha - surprised to find your substack here today. Subscribed! First, happy to read of your marriage: mazel tov. Saddened by news of your cancer. From your rowing crew, I'd guess you're already familiar with Sandi Wisenberg's 'Cancer Bitch.' Another Readerite suggestion, Matt Freedman's 'Relatively Indolent but Relentless.' A huge help to me in my cancers and transplant was Christian Wiman's 'My Bright Abyss,' both essay and book. ...Wishing you well.
I haven’t read Boyer, but I am a US citizen so let me give my opinion of this book. She sounds like she is insistent on her exceptionalism, rather than the lowly collective only truth that we will all die. Now I have to read it. Please, keep writing.
As I said somewhere else, the book really got under my skin, which does sort of recommend it? It definitely made me think about what sort of information and art I want to absorb about all this, and how I want to represent to the world.
Martha - surprised to find your substack here today. Subscribed! First, happy to read of your marriage: mazel tov. Saddened by news of your cancer. From your rowing crew, I'd guess you're already familiar with Sandi Wisenberg's 'Cancer Bitch.' Another Readerite suggestion, Matt Freedman's 'Relatively Indolent but Relentless.' A huge help to me in my cancers and transplant was Christian Wiman's 'My Bright Abyss,' both essay and book. ...Wishing you well.
Thanks Dave! Good to hear from you. I will check those out.
Suggestion: 'The Two Kinds of Decay', Sarah Manguso.
Keep writing - and yes you will beat this.... C. Cook
Thanks Cathy!
One for the reading list: Mary Elizabeth Williams' A Series of Catastrophes and Miracles
Thanks Erin!
I haven’t read Boyer, but I am a US citizen so let me give my opinion of this book. She sounds like she is insistent on her exceptionalism, rather than the lowly collective only truth that we will all die. Now I have to read it. Please, keep writing.
As I said somewhere else, the book really got under my skin, which does sort of recommend it? It definitely made me think about what sort of information and art I want to absorb about all this, and how I want to represent to the world.