Thanks @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social & many readers for a great response to my new @aeon.co essay uncovering the secret world of modern French fire-tamers, their practice, belief, hospital work & tiny gestures of care. If, as Sontag writes, illness is metaphor, what is the symbolism of the fire?

Thanks @liamhbishopwriting.bsky.social & many readers for a great response to my new @aeon.co essay uncovering the secret world of modern French fire-tamers, their practice, belief, hospital work & tiny gestures of care. If, as Sontag writes, illness is metaphor, what is the symbolism of the fire?

This really is excellent from @susannacrossman.bsky.social on @aeon.co Craft and subject level, hitting a lot of notes for me to say the least Give it a read if you haven’t done so yet aeon.co/essays/who-a...

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“Here is another beginning now, so I change beginnings as one changes gear.” —Jacques Derrida

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I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

To name someone is to give them a country. To give them a country is to give them an address. To give them an address is to give them a home. To give them a home is to give them a wardrobe. To give them a wardrobe is to give them a mirror. Deborah Levy, Swallowing Geography.

To name someone is to give them a country. To give them a country is to give them an address. To give them an address is to give them a home. To give them a home is to give them a wardrobe. To give them a wardrobe is to give them a mirror. Deborah Levy, Swallowing Geography.

well worth the ventilation of your interest, as they say

In der Nachberichterstattung zur Brandkatastrophe von Crans-Montana, das ganz hier in der Nähe liegt, bin ich mehrfach auf die "coupeurs de feu" oder "faiseurs de secret" gestoßen, von denen Susanna hier schreibt. Auch das hiesige Krankenhaus arbeitet mit ihnen zusammen: blog.hopitalvs.ch/secret/.

An interesting read.

ICYMI! My new essay on fire-taming, uncovering the secret world of French healers, in @aeon.co. Words on fire, inflammation, humoral medicine, Celtic culture, Bachelard, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sontag and the tiny gestures of care. All thanks to editor @marinabenjamin.bsky.social.

ICYMI! My new essay on fire-taming, uncovering the secret world of French healers, in @aeon.co. Words on fire, inflammation, humoral medicine, Celtic culture, Bachelard, Intangible Cultural Heritage, Sontag and the tiny gestures of care. All thanks to editor @marinabenjamin.bsky.social.

This is a fascinating, extremely well written/encountered essay on fire taming by @susannacrossman.bsky.social

This is FASCINATING

"But as I research and meet with fire-tamers, it feels like I am stepping back in time." Please take some time to read this absolutely incredible essay on the fire tamers of France by my dear friend @susannacrossman.bsky.social.

Fabulous and fascinating piece of writing

This fascinating essay conveys a respectful, open curiosity about the practice and with the practitioners while offering the reader interesting interpretations. If I was still an academic, I’d be showing this to students as an example of an ideal stance within certain forms of qualitative research.

All across France, folk healers called 'fire-tamers' operate an 'alternative, unofficial and ancient grassroots system of care'. Testing the limits of her natural scepticism, the writer Susanna Crossman set out to learn more about their world of belief, trust and healing

This is a wonderful essay, beautifully written and sometimes transcendent. It stopped me in my tracks.

At the end of last year my mother was in a horrific car accident and it got me thinking about trauma, and how the meaning of the word has changed over the generations. Here I have written about it for @aeon.co It's published today aeon.co/essays/not-e...

An astonishing essay. All new to me. What a world we live in.

Such a balanced and beautiful read, Susanna. I loved it! @susannacrossman.bsky.social I was thinking of my mum while reading your essay. She has psoriasis, which is also an inflammation and would have benefited from consulting fire-tamers.

An extraordinary essay from @susannacrossman.bsky.social about the fire tamers of northern France. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

Fascinating essay by @susannacrossman.bsky.social Anyone who has spent any amount of time in France will have come across this phenomenon. I like to think of myself as a rationalist, but I've been around long enough to know not everything can be rationally explained. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

Delighted to be launching my new book from @brokensleepbooks.bsky.social in Cork, along with @leeannequinn.bsky.social's phenomenal Landscape with Question. Waterstone's, July 28th, 6.30 💙

I'm thrilled to share my new essay in @aeon.co Who are The Fire Tamers? For the past year, I travelled through salt marshes, visited remote farmhouses & oncology clinics to uncover the secret world of French healers working in parallel with conventional medicine. aeon.co/essays/who-a...

Our Susanna!!!!! Check out her latest essay! @susannacrossman.bsky.social ##bookbirds 📚🐦💙💙💙💙💙

Last few tickets available. Very excited to be in conversation about over-sharing (or not) social media, memoir, truth, autofiction and more with the excellent Blake Morrison and Neil Griffths. Join us friends! www.foyles.co.uk/events/the-f...

After a wild and wonderful hot London day, swimming in Hampstead Ponds. Wishing you all a happy Solstice.

After a wild and wonderful hot London day, swimming in Hampstead Ponds. Wishing you all a happy Solstice.

Vendredi. En Angleterre.

Vendredi. En Angleterre.

Excellent essay on language , trauma, memoir & more by the brilliant @lilydunn.bsky.social aeon.co/essays/not-e...

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Paris. À l’aube. Jeudi matin.

Paris. À l’aube. Jeudi matin.

La vue du train. Mercredi.

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Another brilliant long-length piece (with excellent interviews) on fiction V nonfiction etc... www.theguardian.com/books/2015/d...

Another brilliant long-length piece (with excellent interviews) on fiction V nonfiction etc... www.theguardian.com/books/2015/d...

Un rêve portugais.

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Un rêve portugais.