Authoring
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Portrait of a Physician‑Author Who Refused to Bow to Medical Hubris In the middle of the nineteenth century, when American medicine still wrapped itself in the robes of classical learning while ignoring the blood on its own hands, one man stood up and declared the unthinkable: physicians were killing the very women they claimed to…
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There is a peculiar hazard in the novelist’s trade, one that no apprenticeship in the craft quite prepares a writer to face: the creation that outlives its usefulness. Every author who has spent years in the company of a character knows the intimacy of that arrangement. The interior monologue, the tics of speech, the way…