Master of razor-edged literary humor, Binnie Kirshenbaum reads from her latest novel, Rabbits for Food (Soho Press, 2019), which tells the story of a writer’s slide into depression and institutionalization. About the Book “Psychiatric dayroom dark and just as funny, Rabbits for Food breaks down the mental breakdown into disquieting bite-sized pieces. It’s fast-paced and

Our culture is preoccupied with the restoration narrative, that comforting story in which the sick recover and return to being themselves or even discover a silver lining to illness and disability. What the restoration narrative leaves out is the story of chaos, chronicity, and nonconformity. It also leaves out humor, caregiving, advocacy, and the durability

In an interview with the Atlantic, the writer Rachel Cusk once compared the experience of motherhood to being "an open wound." She continued, "A woman is exposed to being turned into a different kind of person by the experience of motherhood." In this reading, five writers will reflect on their own experiences with motherhood, the