Megan E. O'Laughlin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@CassDonish Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger, Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I haven't read Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward or When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi but they are on my list.

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@PaulCrenstorm White Magic by Elissa Washuta They can't kill us until they kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison How to Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Glass, Light and Electricity by Shena MacAuliffe So Sad Today by Melissa Broder

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@CassDonish Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger, Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I haven't read Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward or When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi but they are on my list.

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@PaulCrenstorm White Magic by Elissa Washuta They can't kill us until they kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison How to Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Glass, Light and Electricity by Shena MacAuliffe So Sad Today by Melissa Broder

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@xiankiefer The Sentence, Louise Erdrich and Matrix, Lauren Groff. (and then I read a buncha nonfiction because of your MFA program!)

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@CassDonish Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger, Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I haven't read Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward or When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi but they are on my list.

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@PaulCrenstorm White Magic by Elissa Washuta They can't kill us until they kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison How to Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Glass, Light and Electricity by Shena MacAuliffe So Sad Today by Melissa Broder

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@K_O_Sundberg I recommend the book Love and Rage by Lama Rod Owens. Even though he's a Buddhist teacher, he blends traditions and his work is quite accessible. He doesn't teach that anger is bad or needs to go away, but that it protects us from deeper hurt and deserves our attention.

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@PaulCrenstorm White Magic by Elissa Washuta They can't kill us until they kill us by Hanif Abdurraqib The Empathy Exams by Leslie Jamison How to Write An Autobiographical Novel by Alexander Chee Glass, Light and Electricity by Shena MacAuliffe So Sad Today by Melissa Broder

Megan E. O'Laughlin

@CassDonish Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger, Heart Berries by Terese Mailhot, The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion, Wild by Cheryl Strayed. I haven't read Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward or When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi but they are on my list.