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Dark and Light at the Same Time: A Conversation with Fariha Róisín

By Amy Reardon — 2021

Few things excite and comfort me these days like a conversation with a like-minded woman who has found her voice. So it went with Fariha Róisín when we discussed her debut novel, Like a Bird (September 2020, Unnamed Press), the story of a young woman unwinding herself from the inherited traumas of growing up in a female body, as a child of immigrants.

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Can Traumatic Experiences Make You More Creative?

Can increased creativity be a coping strategy for dealing with trauma?

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Romeo Vitelli
2014
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The Improvisational Oncologist

To understand the minds of individual cancers, we are learning to mix and match these two kinds of learning — the standard and the idiosyncratic — in unusual and creative ways.

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Siddhartha Mukherjee
2016
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After He and His Wife Are Diagnosed with Cancer, a Playwright Reckons with the Gift of Creativity that Trauma Can Bring

In the midst of trauma, everything means something. Signs and symbols appear. You’ve noticed them before, you’re a writer, but now you see them everywhere.

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Dan O'Brien
2021
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