Best friends on losing breasts

Talking to Emily Rau about cancer, books, friends, and lovers

Today’s free newsletter features an interview with Emily Rau, assistant professor in the digital humanities at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, editor of the Willa Cather Archive, and (obviously most importantly) my grad-school bestie. We chat about the unlikely experience of going through breast cancer together, what we’ve learned, shared, gained, a…