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Essays about literature, the craft of writing, the body and illness, and other obsessions.

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About Meghan O'Rourke

Writer and poet | Editor of The Yale Review | Author of five books, including National Book Award finalist and New York Times Bestseller THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM | Formerly at The New Yorker and The Paris Review | Professor of creative writing at Yale

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