Samuel Fisher & Will Rees: Illness – Real and Imagined

Some of the most gripping Book Festival conversations are those blending fiction and non-fiction. Here, we bring together two writers whose work addresses illness. Will Rees’ essay Hypochondria grapples with the phantom malady that preoccupied Kafka, Didion, Sontag, and Melville. Meanwhile, Samuel Fisher’s novel, Migraine, sees London decimated by an epidemic of weather-induced migraines. What would society look like if it were organised around chronic pain? Chaired by Sarah Manavis.

Categories: Health & Wellbeing, Non-fiction

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