Event

Body Language: Writing about Illness and the Body

Sunday, April 24, 2022
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Business and Community Center

How can language help us see, understand and make sense of, and even cope with the experiences of illness and of living in our bodies?

Author Joanne Jacobson’s memoir Every Last Breath, published in 2020, charts over a decade the unexpected transformations her mother’s ongoing respiratory disease and her own rare blood disorder brought to both their lives. After Joanne reads from Every Last Breath and talks about the experience of writing it, she will lead a discussion of writing as an approach to illness and the body.

Joanne Jacobson grew up in Evanston, and has returned after 40 years of living and teaching in New York City and Vermont. Her writing has explored the emotional texture of change and language as a source of human resiliency. She taught American literature, American studies, and nonfiction writing at the University of Iowa, the University of Angers (France), Middlebury College, and Yeshiva University. Visit Joanne's website at joannejacobson.com

Limited to 20 participants who must follow the library's pandemic safety guidance.

Online registration is closed.