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…