Emily Wells
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writer, A MATTER OF APPEARANCE out now
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Emily Wells
Seven Stories Press
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“Drawing on the archives of sickness and her own experience as a patient, [Emily Wells] demands a more nuanced understanding of the diagnostic categories of mental illness and biological illness” A very good piece on A MATTER OF APPEARANCE in The New Yorker!
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A Memoir of Contested Illness That Takes On the Legacy of Hysteria
Emily Wells is interested in what her doctors see when they look at her: a depressed or anxious woman, perhaps even one who is faking sickness for attention.
https://www.newyorker.com/books/under-review/a-memoir-of-contested-illness-that-takes-on-the-legacy-of-hysteria
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