Recommended by Joyce Wadler
Dennis Overbye, who covers astronomy for the New York Times, has just launched a Substack column. (August 15, 2023) He makes the cosmos comprehensible even to people like me, who flunked Physics twice, so keep your eye on this space. Meanwhile, read this piece. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/20/movies/christopher-nolan-oppenheimer.html
I loved Auslander's novel, "Foreskin's Lament". I loved, "Happyish", the TV show for which he wrote and may have been the show-runner. I love his funny/sometimes tragic column, in which he often spars with a God he does not believe in, but who seems to still have him in a headlock. Better that than a choke-hold.
Judith Hannah Weiss is a writer who suffered traumatic brain injury 18 years ago when a drunk plowed into her car. She writes vividly and beautifully -- and she's funny.
Kureishi, the British playwright and novelist who wrote the film, "My Beautiful Laundrette", is now dealing with a fall this past Christmas which left him paralyzed. He cannot walk, move his hands, or feed himself. He is dictating his story, from a rehab hospital in Rome. He writes about everything, from his creative process (before the accident) to his rage. Read about the nurse who brings him a plate of breakfast pastries and leaves, not realizing Hanif cannot feed himself, and weep.
