Diary
My Multifocal Life
To Tell. Not to Tell
It’s hard to tell people that you have cancer. No one knows what to say and those who care feel sad or scared. But not to tell makes
July 24, 2012
My Multifocal Life
BC: Before Cancer
In the first flush of diagnosis and treatment–the so-called infusions–I made several drawings about feeling the world had been turned upside down, with me in it. More than
July 20, 2012
My Multifocal Life
Did You Smoke?
When people learn I have lung cancer, I’m invariably asked whether I smoked. I usually confess and say yes, I perfected the art of smoking at Paris cafés
July 18, 2012
Welcome. Some musings on my current preoccupations with the worlds of illness and the worlds of books, the vicissitudes of living with cancer and the need now, in my eighties, to imagine what new writing might be.