Beyond Transformation and Suspicion

Illness Narrative, Memoir, and Writing Toward a ‘Deeper Self’

“If I can look directly at my life and my death without flinching I know there is nothing they can ever do to me again.” – Audre Lorde

At first, I thought I might be able to get away with romanticizing all the not writing I was doing during covid. After all, I reasoned with myself, almost no one wrote about our last great pandemic, the influenza of 1918 …