March/April 2009 (Jerald Winakur's Book Published; NPR Commentaries From Narrative Matters Essays By Nataly Kelly And Janette Kurie; To Date Four Narrative Matters Essays Have Become NPR Commentaries)
Jerald Winakur's Book Published
• Jerry Winakur's essay "What Are We Going To Do With Dad?" (July/August 2005) is the most widely read of all Narrative Matters essays. In it he detailed what it's like to be a geriatrician standing by during his father's downward spiral into old age, disability, and dementia.
You can learn more about Jerry, his family (including, of course, his father)--and what happened after his Narrative Matters essay was published when you read Jerry's just-published book. Titled Memory Lessons: A Doctor's Story (Hyperion, 2009), it's described as "the story of becoming a doctor, and being a son." Jerry calls it "part memoir, part manifesto."
NPR Commentaries From Narrative Matters Essays By Nataly Kelly And Janette Kurie
• NPR recently recorded two Narrative Matters authors reading from their Narrative Matters essays.
• First to air, on NPR's "All Things Considered -- Weekend," was Nataly Kelly reading an excerpt from her November/December 2008 essay about medical interpreters. Listen to Nataly's NPR commentary here.
Next up, on NPR's "Morning Edition," Janette Kurie read from her January/February 2003 essay about helping neglected and abandoned children. Listen to Janette's NPR commentary here.
To Date, Four Narrative Matters Essays Have Become NPR Commentaries
• So far NPR has invited four Narrative Matters authors to record commentaries drawn from their Narrative Matters essays. Nataly Kelly and Janette Kurie joined two previous writers from the personal-story section of Health Affairs on air, Philip Musgrove ("Life and Death And Who's Going to Pay") and Steven Wartman ("My Mother, A Professional Patient").
For links to all four NPR commentaries--and to the full Narrative Matters essays they come from--click here.
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