The Invisible Kingdom: A Conversation with Meghan O’Rourke

In the late 1990s, Meghan O’Rourke, an acclaimed young poet and New Yorker editor, now the editor of The Yale Review, began to feel worrying, painful symptoms: rashes and exhaustion. These hints of illness turned into a raging autoimmune disease which sapped her energy and sabotaged her attempts at normal life. Almost worse than her mysterious condition was the difficulty of finding a sympathetic, well-informed doctor to definitively diagnose her.

In this New York Times bestseller, O’Rourke, author of The Long Goodbye, charts her arduous medical journey and gradual improvement, a narrative that Oprah Daily calls “a medical detective story with the drama and style of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks.”

Please note: This event will be held virtually. Details for accessing the program will be sent upon registration.