Writing about Cancer with Novelist Elizabeth Benedict

CancerTalks Podcast

English - November 03, 2023 20:50 - 55 minutes - 128 MB - ★★★★★ - 16 ratings
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Previous Episode: The Pain in Birth and the Pleasure in Death with Birth/Death Doula Emma King

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This week's guest is Elizabeth Benedict - a bestselling author whose novels include Almost and Slow Dancing. Her most recent book is a cancer memoir entitled Rewriting Illness: A View of My Own. Elizabeth's nonfiction spans a range of themes from sexual politics to money to literature and includes The Joy of Writing Sex, which has been the classic reference for writing about sex in fiction for the past 25 years. In this episode, we explore many different ways of understanding the cancer journey, including the way a doctor’s own emotional landscape affects the process of diagnosing a patient.

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This episode was produced by Claire de Laszlo Marshall, with editing and original music by Annie Murnighan.

Elizabeth’s Reading List

In Gratitude by Jenny Diski

The Anatomy of Hope by Jerome Groopman MD

On Mortality by Atul Gawande