S5 Ep. 8: Exceeding Surge Capacity: Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot on the Long-Term Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic

fiction/non/fiction

Authors Paul Lisicky and Terese Marie Mailhot join hosts Whitney Terrell and V.V. Ganeshananthan to talk about the possible long-term mental health effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. First, Lisicky discusses the situation in light of his experiences with the AIDS epidemic and through the lens of his memoir Later: My Life at the Edge of the World. In the second half of the show, Mailhot reads from her bestselling memoir Heart Berries and talks about how children’s futures may be shaped by the trauma they have experienced since early 2020.

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This podcast is produced by Anne Kniggendorf.

Selected readings:

Paul Lisicky

• Later: My Life at the Edge of the World
• The Narrow Door
• Unbuilt Projects
• Lawn Boy
• Famous Builder
• The Burning House

Terese Marie Mailhot

• Heart Berries

Others:

• What if There's No Such Thing as Closure? - The New York Times Magazine, by Meg Bernhard
• Ambiguous Loss by Pauline Boss
• From the Mouths of Babes: Wayne Miller and Elizabeth Gaffney on Writing About Children in Uncertain Times ‹ Literary Hub (Fiction/Non/Fiction Season 4, Episode 23)
• MacGyver
• In the Shadow of the Epidemic by Walt Odets
• Elizabeth McCracken
• Tara Haelle
• Ann Masten
• Martin Seligman
• The Sentence - Louise Erdrich
• The Simpsons
• CDC study of adverse childhood experiences
• “COVID is Driving a Children’s Mental Health Emergency” by Julia Hotz
• “U.S. Surgeon General Issues Advisory on Youth Mental Health Crisis Further Exposed by COVID-19 Pandemic”
• “A declaration from the American Academy of Pediatrics, American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Children’s Hospital Association”

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