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I read joke books as a child. Readers say they relate to my angsty way of moving through the world. My usual topics are breath, blood, cancer, Jews, Texas, history, Freud, women's bodies, me.
UPCOMING EVENTS:
6-7:30pm, Thursday, Nov. 7, class, "Writing the body, writing through crisis," and launch of the 15th anniversary edition of The Adventures of Cancer Bitch, Bookends & Beginnings, 1620 Orrington Ave., Evanston, IL, $40 for workshop and copy of the book; 5-6pm, happy hour at mini-bar. Registration and info here.
7pm, Thursday, Nov. 14, Another Chicago Magazine reading with Jen Companik, Sandra Jackson-Opoku, and Liz Shulman, Secret World Books, 1774 2nd St., Highland Park, IL (quick walk from Metra station)
11am-12:30pm, Friday, Nov. 15, Midwest Modern Language Association, "The Life and Afterlife of Breast Cancer: A Reading and Discussion on Process" for the panel, "Writing Illness, Embodiment, and Care in Fiction and Creative Nonfiction," Hilton Chicago, 720 S. Michigan, fourth floor, Room 4-B, with Patrick Thomas Henry (chair), Zeke Jarvis (Eureka College), Georgia Poplett (Durham University), Leah McCormack (University of South Dakota)
5:30-7pm, Monday, Nov. 18, Reading & Writing Cancer, workshop and reading, Gilda's Club, 537 N. Wells, 2nd floor, Chicago. FREE.
1:30pm to 3:00pm Eastern, Tuesday, December 17, Virtual, Zoom Room 03Dec. 15-19, virtual, Association for Jewish Studies, panel, "Embodied Jewish gender histories: Feminist, reflexive, creative encounters in the archives and in the field," with Kerry Wallach (chair), Julia Mickenberg (respondent), Nikki Halpern, Mechele Leon, Josephine Levy-Rathenau, Angelina Palmen, Deborah Petroz, Abby Gondek, Hannah Mayne
"Collaborating with S.L. Wisenberg on the panel, 'Storytelling and humor as strategy of "survivance"' was such a pleasure! She kept the needs of the audience in mind and gave a presentation that was funny and well researched. The audience members were eager to participate, thanks to her welcoming demeanor and wry sense of humor." Gayle Levy, associate professor of French, University of Missouri-Kansas City