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Author: Nina Potischman

A girl in red boots sits in a hospital bed with an IV drip attached to her arm.

Arts & Culture Books Columns

March 6, 2020 12:14 am

Read it and weep: The paradox of illness narratives

By Nina Potischman 3655 Views Autoimmune Disease, Chronic Illness, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating Polyneuropathy, College, Disability Illness and Difference Alliance, Hospitalization, Humanity, Illness, Mental Illness, Metaphor, Sarah Manguso, Suffering, Suicide, The Two Kinds of Decay, Writing

Nina Potischman PO ’21 critiques Sarah Manguso’s “The Two Kinds of Decay” and the need to extract meaning from experiences of chronic illness.

A girl in pink is displayed touching her cat, eating cheesecake, and standing with pink boots.

Arts & Culture Books Columns

February 20, 2020 11:48 pmFebruary 21, 2020 12:29 am

Read it and weep: On the limits of journaling and capturing adolescence

By Nina Potischman 2949 Views Adolescence, Anxiety, Art, Breakup, Diary, Journal, Memory, Mortality, Ongoingness, Sarah Manguso, Time, Writing

Nina Potischman PO ’21 reflects on journaling her adolescence alongside messages from Sarah Manguso’s “Ongoingness: The End of a Diary.”

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