Laurel Braitman

2 months ago | courtney.substack.com | Courtney Martin |Laurel Braitman |Elissa Strauss

This was a really special conversation. It felt sacred to hear stories from two people who have lost their homes in fires, years apart, and see the ways in which grief and loss and renewal and family are all intertwined so infinitely. And is just always a gift to hear from.

Jul 8, 2024 | ted.com | Laurel Braitman

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Jan 9, 2024 | bonappetit.com | Laurel Braitman

When my dad got a terminal cancer diagnosis at age 41, he decided to teach me to fish. I was three years old, but he was determined to spend the rest of our time together making sure I knew what I was doing. He wanted me to be okay without him and believed if I knew how to catch my own food (and outfish any man who dared underestimate me), I’d be okay enough.

Jan 9, 2024 | yahoo.com | Laurel Braitman

When my dad got a terminal cancer diagnosis at age 41, he decided to teach me to fish. I was three years old, but he was determined to spend the rest of our time together making sure I knew what I was doing. He wanted me to be okay without him and believed if I knew how to catch my own food (and outfish any man who dared underestimate me), I’d be okay enough.

Oct 9, 2023 | audible.com | Dan O'Brien |Zak Salih |Suleika Jaouad |Laurel Braitman

A collection of prose poems that chronicles the family life of two cancer survivors. Dan O’Brien’s powerful companion to Our Cancers catalogs the recovery of a cancer survivor, whose wife has recently survived her own cancer, as he returns to his daily life while raising a young daughter. This prose-poem sequence is a true survivor’s notebook, usingand the tools of memoir to evoke how disaster can constellate our past, present, and future.