Let’s Hear It for the Dull Habit
“Good Letters” is pleased today to welcome D.G. Myers as a regular contributor. In early April the MIT physicist and novelist Alan Lightman pitched his tent between an atheism that speaks in science’s...
View ArticleYou Tell ’Em, Duke Porn Star
Like everyone else with a lick of moral sense, I was shamed and saddened by the news out of Duke University last February that a freshman student was paying her tuition bills by doing porn. Belle Knox,...
View ArticleThe Mercy of Sickness before Death
Just so you understand: I am dying. I am in the end stage of metastatic prostate cancer, and after six-and-a-half years of close association with the disease, I have another six months to two years to...
View ArticleQuitting the Cancer Battle
I am not a hero. After my last post, some readers wanted to know how I arrived at my attitude toward cancer, which is to be found somewhere between a religious person’s submission and the cordial...
View ArticleThe Destruction of a Man
This year 233,000 American men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer, while almost the same number of American women will be diagnosed with invasive breast cancer. What breast cancer is for women...
View ArticleHow to Talk to the Dying
Since being diagnosed nearly seven years ago with a lethal cancer, I have backed my old friends and new acquaintances into a quandary. What do you say to a dying man? Strangers don’t seem to have any...
View ArticleAll Unhappy Families Are Alike
In commenting on my latest essay for “Good Letters,” a man “disabled from an odd condition” confided that, when his health crashed, he found himself abandoned by those he depended upon: “My family...
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