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!✨✨🙏🙏

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! ♥️ .

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.

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).

Our eight-year-old has become a tweenager—”You can’t understand Gen Alpha embarrassment, Mom!” he said to me this week—seemingly overnight. What are your favorite podcasts (for parents) or parenting books/blogs for this age group?.

I joined @putrinolab & other clinicians, researchers, and advocates in responding to a troubling piece in The BMJ that recycles discredited narratives about ME/CFS and suggests that patients w/ severe ME/CFS are hindered in their recovery by a “belief” they will not get better:.

RT @JackieSeidel1: This book is VERY good if you’ve ever been ill and dismissed by doctors. Or if you want to understand that experience. O….

A new study confirms what so many already know: being dismissed by doctors can be as traumatic as illness itself. Patients report four kinds of harm: shame, lost trust, delayed diagnosis, avoiding care. This is the harm I tried to name in my book The Invisible Kingdom:.

RT @RemarqueNYU: A still from last night's event at Remarque, ending the semester with @totomcgee and @meghanor on reckoning with grief and….

Really looking forward to this event with Todd Meyers, author of GONE GONE, an ethnography of Opioid overdose, today at the Remarque Institute at NYU. Would love to see you if you’re around—note, you have to register to attend:

And I wrote a little something about mothering for my Substack:

Happy Mother’s Day, to all who are mothers or have mothers, and to those whose mothers are no longer with us. It can be a day full of loss, I know; here is a love letter for my own mother after she died, from my book The Long Goodbye: .

So excited to talk with my brilliant friend Katie Kitamura tonight about her fantastic novel AUDITION at the Brooklyn Public Library. Come on by if you're around and interested!

RT @SarahSchaferMD: This is an amazing book! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟.

RT @Ebony_Dog: This is an exceptional book, beautifully written and deeply researched. Five stars.

I'm writing someting short about #longcovid and the patient experience and would love to hear in my DMs or replies from anyone who wants to share whatever they think is most important for me to hear. 💙.

#invisibleillness.

When I was sick, people kept telling me I looked fine. But I didn’t feel fine. My book THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM is about what happens when your body tells a story no one else can hear. Today it’s on sale at Amazon $1.99, in case you know someone living in that silence.

RT @yalereview: Amid mounting attacks on higher education, @meghanor argues for a magazine—and a university—that keep the pilot flame of in….