“My Father, Montaigne, and the Art of Living” and “The Myth of Moving On,” an interview with cancer survivor Suleika Jaouad '10, two new pieces by Ann Tashi Slater '84

“My Father, Montaigne, and the Art of Living,” a Catapult piece about my relationship with my father (Class of '53) and my love of Paris, is a Notable Essay in The Best American Essays 2021. My father spent his junior year at the Sorbonne; his stories of France inspired me to live and work in Paris, and I became a Francophile like him. (https://bit.ly/3cO7Qc2)

In “The Myth of Moving On,” I spoke with cancer survivor Suleika Jaouad '10 for Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, where I'm a contributing editor. In 2013, Suleika won an Emmy for "Life, Interrupted," a New York Times video series chronicling her experience. Over four million have viewed her 2019 TED talk, "What almost dying taught me about living." We discussed her harrowing journey back from illness and how it relates to bardo "between-states," not-knowing, and impermanence. (https://bit.ly/3CQCmML)