I'm over the moon to learn that The Invisible Kingdom was longlisted for the National Book Award in nonfiction! Thank you to all those who have read it and to the @natbookawards & to @riverheadbooks for everything, including this snazzy image!✨✨🙏🙏

amen

@polybioRF 11/ I'll be giving a @TEDx talk on infectious contributions to aging, and solutions to combat such age distortion this October in Boston. For now, check out this podcast where I go into more detail on the topic:

This is at once depressing (personally) to contemplate, but really exciting, as it reminds everyone why we should learn much more about infections and infection-associated chronic illness, in order to collectively age better. There is so much work to be done here:

Happy to share some new #LongCOVID data that went to pre-print today. Before we begin breaking this down, one caveat: this work MUST be validated by a well-powered placebo-controlled randomized controlled trial before we can get too excited, but this is https://t.co/a0lKMU9N7C 1/

https://t.co/M8WWZsyWGi

too many doctors shrug at patients' “mysterious” symptoms, even when they actually suggested an infection-associated illness. Mount Sinai’s new manual is an important step: a medical institution taking IACD seriously—including Lyme and other TBDs. Thx @CoRESinai @PutrinoLab!

Eine großartige Ressource zum klinischen Management infektionsassoziierter Erkrankungen, also auch ME/CFS. Mit vielen praktischen Tips auch zu Behandlung von zB Dysautonomie und Hypermobilität.

“Living with #MECFS is like holding what has no meaning.” @julierehmeyer’s new piece about illness and grief for her friend Beth Mazur is searing and unforgettable. I’m better today, but when I was sickest, this paragraph was my life:

Sorry I can't! I'm locked in to the German Shopping Cart Return Championships...

Grateful for this thoughtful post! The Invisible Kingdom is, in many ways, a call for us to talk about the challenges of what medicine doesn’t yet understand—and to take patients seriously, even when symptoms defy explanation. I’m glad to see it resonating w/ clinicians! 💙

New Substack post! I answer your writing questions—on structure, self-editing, and getting through the messy middle. I also talk about what I learned from Nancy Drew, index cards, and the most common notes I give writers. https://t.co/BeRmj6ooSz

I just published a new post about writing when life refuses to cooperate. ✍️ How do we keep a relationship to the work when everything—from caretaking to chronic illness—chips away at our routine? https://t.co/0iXHmKWqxW

Four more WaPo departures: Hank Stuever, Ann Hornaday, Craig Timberg, Joel Achenbach. Source says it feels like the Hunger Games: “My inbox has literally dozens of announcements of departures or newsroom wide goodbye notes.”

From 2015: Portraits of mothers in labor in Tanzania and Sweden capture an extreme disparity in maternal health.

This is such a wonderful piece of writing from ⁦@meghanor⁩ One of the best things I’ve read about the creative dilemma we face with AI https://t.co/Q2nGisV0eY via @NYTOpinion

In @politico, @mroth78 reminds us that higher ed isn’t a luxury; it’s our democracy’s backbone. Trump’s assault on academic independence is a power grab that hurts all fields of inquiry, and liberals and conservatives alike:

Ready for lit girl summer? Our new @yalereview mini tote, dreamed up by me and Will Frazier, is in @ELLEmagazine this week. It's on sale on our website, too! ♥️ https://t.co/zhhvJ2KpZS

What if the problem with a lot first-person writing isn’t too much “I”—but not enough perception? In a new post, I explore the hazards of confession & the turn toward witness, through Deborah Levy (and Barthes.) W/ a prompt. https://t.co/OjUKlMjdnh

Answers will be off the record /not for quotation unless you specify otherwise.

Hi, for a piece I'm writing: If you're a student, educator, writer/artist who has used AI & are willing to share thoughts about it--whether you feel bad or good about using it; what benefits you found, your concerns--pls email me at meghan.orourke at Yale (edu).