Meghan O'Rourke, THE INVISIBLE KINGDOM: Reimagining Chronic Illness

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 July 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Zibby is joined by author and editor Meghan O'Rourke to discuss her latest book, The Invisible Kingdom, which took her nearly a decade to write. The two talk about the three major problems with medicine that have made it so hard to diagnose chronic illnesses, particularly in women, as well as how Meghan wanted to portray her own invisible illness journey as hopeful without sugarcoating the truth. Meghan also shares how Covid has impacted the ways in which our culture approaches chronic illness, her experience as an editor at The New Yorker and Slate, and what project she's looking forward to working on next.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Zivie Owens, the creator and host of the award-winning podcast that you're listening to right now.
0:07.8	Thank you so much called Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books.
0:10.7	It is a daily podcast 365 days a year, and each day we talk to an author about all of the things related to their career, their book, their life, and more in 30 minutes or
0:21.1	less, because who has time? I am now an author myself, although I wasn't when I started this
0:25.9	podcast, and you can get my new memoir, Bookends, a memoir of Love, Loss, and Literature,
0:31.8	wherever books are sold starting July 1st, and my children's book, Princess Charming. You can
0:37.4	learn more about me at Zibby Owens.com,
0:39.5	but really you're here to learn more about the authors,
0:42.2	and that is what we're going to do.
0:44.4	Also, be sure to check out all the other podcasts
0:46.9	in the ZCast Podcast Network.
0:49.4	You can learn more at ZCastnetwork.com
0:51.9	and definitely check out those shows as well.
0:58.4	Thank you. at Zcastnetwork.com and definitely check out those shows as well. Megan O'Rourke is the author of The Invisible Kingdom,
1:01.1	reimagining chronic illness.
1:03.0	She's also the author of The Long Goodbye and the poetry collection's
1:06.0	Sun and Days Once and Half-Life,
1:08.0	the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and other awards,
1:10.5	she is the editor of the Yale Review. Her writing appears in the Atlantic Monthly, the New York or the New York Times, and more. Welcome, Megan. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books to discuss the Invisible Kingdom and your work and your life and everything else. I am so excited to be here. Thanks so much for having me. Sure. Okay. So I'm sure most people listening are
1:29.9	familiar with your bestselling book already, but just in case, would you mind describing what it's
1:37.0	about and how you decided to share all of this and do all the work on it and just all the good stuff?
1:43.6	Yeah. So this book has been, I think,
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