Breast Cancer Book Talk with Author Mary Cappello Pt 2

Mary Cappello talks with journalist Julie Bolcer in the Here TV studios, NY, NY, September, 2009 about her latest book CALLED BACK: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life, just out from Alyson books. She addresses the political nature of the disease, the meaning of "breast cancer awareness," her aversion to pink kitsch, the horror of being called back into mammography and the necessity to recall one's experience for a community of readers, her desire to create a range of tonalities in her writing as antidote to cancer muzak, and counter-rituals to cancer's highly ritualized routines. Meant for people living with cancer, for their families and caretakers, for physicians, and activists, and for serious readers of literary nonfiction, CALLED BACK can be purchased on amazon.com or ordered into your local bookstore. For a fuller author interview, go to www.alyson.com

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