Up at Salon: What I Read for My Mental Health During the Plague Year

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My Article Is Up on Salon: Quarantine book club: Reading for mental health in a plague year
How Emily Dickinson, Octavia Butler, Joan Didion, Jericho Brown, and other authors helped me survive

Here’s the link to the article, which covers my struggle with my mental (and physical) health during the last few months, and how starting a reading club with my mother, reading poetry for meditation, considering the wisdom of Emily Dickinson and Margaret Atwood, and discovering how the genius of Octavia Butler, among others, helped built hope, resilience, empathy, and compassion.

Salon: Reading List for the Pandemic for Mental Health