Selected Press, Essays, & Satire
NPR: Fresh Air with Terry Gross -
"I have been told by many doctors and nurses that my attitude is everything. I just want to state for the record - I have a really bad attitude. One of the things that I feel like cancer has not taken from me is like my split second judgementalness. Cancer hasn't made me a nicer person, hasn't made me a more positive person."
The New York Times - Well Column: "The Unbearable Lightness of Dating with Cancer" (Click here for PDF)
The Hollywood Reporter, essay: "Cancer, Cosmos and Courage: How a ‘Sex and the City’ Star Taught Me to Laugh at Death."
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The Laydown Diaries: Ann Patchett's Recommendation of The End of My Life is Killing Me
The Boston Globe: How to Talk to Someone with Cancer
AARP Magazine, Featured Article Excerpted from The End Of My Life is Killing Me: "I Want to Believe!" -
"I was determined to resist the seductive sells of the peddlers of the unproven but still got suckered into magical ‘cures’"
Kirkus Audio Book Review
"Her warm, conversational delivery evokes the feeling of listening to an honest, witty friend. A life-affirming, entertaining listen that finds comedy and meaning even in the darkest moments."
Charleston Post and Courtier Review: "The last laugh — How actress and writer Annabelle Gurwitch copes with cancer."
"In a memoir that overflows with humor and good cheer...The End of My Life Is Killing Me” is a heartwarming testament to our capacity to transcend the precariousness of our finite existence, to receive and offer kindness to ourselves and others with intentionality, to cultivate our own heretofore unknown resilience, and to learn — at any age and any stage — how to live and die well. The essential lessons Gurwitch teaches with such generosity and grace are timeless precisely because we are not. Her memoir serves as a most welcome balm for despair, an endorsement of small victories, and a clarion call for the life-affirming and quality-of-life-saving powers of radical optimism and radical curiosity."
Hadassah Magazine, essay adapted from The End of My Life is Killing Me: "A Reluctant Angel: Finding my Wings, and Purpose, as a Cancer Mentor."
Yale School of Medicine: "Celebrate the Unexpected"
KCRW: Press Play with Madeleine Brand
Open Book with Scott Simon, Host of NPR's "All Things Considered"
NPR Podcast: Ye Gods with Scott Carter
Alta Journal: "14 New March Books"
New Yorker: Letters
Boston Globe: Ideas: "To Pebble or Not to Pebble, That is the Question."
Washington Post: "Well: My Ketamine Diaries"
The New Yorker, Shouts and Murmurs: Surprise! You're Now Subscribed to My Substack!
The Oncologist Journal: On the Desire for Sexual Healing
Washington Post: Book review: Every Lawmaker Who Wants to Ban Drag Should Read This History
Book review of Glitter and Concrete by Elyssa Maxx Goodman
Washington Post Op-Ed: Tackling Cancer While Battling the Insurance System
Washington Post Op-Ed: The End of My Life was Killing Me
Hadassah Magazine feature: What it Means to Welcome Strangers into Your Home
The Coronavirus Saved My Life. If I hadn’t gone in for a test, I wouldn’t have learned I had stage four metastatic lung cancer. I guess that’s a perverse kind of luck
Los Angeles Magazine feature: The Belle of the Matzo Ball
Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: They were Homeless I Took Them In
Los Angeles Magazine: A Zoom Writers' Room Saved My Sanity (sort of) During Quarantine
Los Angeles Magazine: Let Us Now Praise Adam Driver's Face
New York Times: Back to School with Narrow Escapes and a Mother's Love
Wall Street Journal: Cremation Nation: Our New Way to Go op-ed
The New Yorker Daily Shouts: The book that I haven't started writing yet will be the best book ever!
New York Observer: Mark Zuckerberg is Not a Bot!
Wall Street Journal: I'm Ready for My Wide Shot: on gender equality in film op-ed
Los Angeles Times feature: On family, the one you're born with, and the one on your book cover Essay
The New York Times Op-Ed: Why I Am Not Marching In A Pink Hat Op-Ed
The New Yorker Shouts & Murmurs: Please Unsubscribe
The New York Times Op-Ed: Death With No Dignity Op-Ed
The New York Times Op-Ed: The Treasure In A Small Package
The Los Angeles Times Op-Ed: Part 'none' Part Jewish and Leary about Anti-Semitism in Europe Op-Ed
Oprah.com: Best Friend Break Up - O Inspiration
New York Times review: Our 8 Favorite Books for Healthy Living 2021
"this is a story about harnessing resilience and learning how life’s disappointments can teach you about the things that matter most." Tara Parker Pope
Deadline: HBO developing You're Leaving When?
Open Book NPR's Scott Simon interview
NPR: Marketplace interview with Kai Rysdall and Molly Wood
Real Time with Bill Maher: The gig economy, the "nevertirement generation," death by a thousand invoices, and housing those experiencing homelessness
Washington Post "Annabelle Gurwitch wrote a book about adapting to life's curveballs"
GMA.com Mother's day essay on inventing new rituals with adult offspring during Covid
Los Angeles Magazine Interview with filmmaker Nicole Holofcener,"Guwitch writes with hilarious poignancy about the lack of Hottie McHandsomes and tropical getaways in midlife"
GMA.com Will Reeve and I spoke about the new book and raising lung cancer awareness amidst the gorgeous blooming trees in Central Park
NPR Morning Edition "Annabelle Gurwitch's Mid-Life Maelstrom: Divorce, Cancer, 'Downward Mobility"
New York Times Tara Parkers Pope's essay on disenfranchised grief
TodayShow.com On Covid and Cancer
Satellite Sisters podcast Love the sisters and cultivating sisterhood
LA Times Interview: Divorce, quarantine, Stage 4 cancer? Annabelle Gurwitch has to laugh
Morning Edition NPR Annabelle Gurwitch's maelstrom
Zibby Owens Mom's Don't Have Time to Read Books
"You're Leaving When" is a GMA pick
The Unspeakable Podcast You too can go broke in middle age!
Los Angeles Magazine: Interview with Filmmaker Nicole Holofcenter
The Moth: Annabelle tells a story
NPR MarketPlace: Interview with Kai Rysdall on the loneliness of the gig economy and excerpt "What Price Sisterhood Now"
O Magazine Wherever is a May Book pick - "A Vivacious, Hilarious, and madcap memoir"
Dinner Party Listen to a sneak peak of Annabelle's new book
People Magazine "You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up is laugh out loud funny!"
NPR Books “A seriously funny collection of essays… the book, infused throughout with sharp wit, is hilarious. Moving, juicy… Gurwitch is squarely in Nora Ephron territory”
NPR: All Things Considered: Mandolit del Barco interviews Annabelle
The New York Times "Annabelle Gurwitch is a funny woman...At the center of the book is a serious question: How are we supposed to age? She convincingly argues that there is no longer a template." -- Judith Newman
WSJ Thurber Prize for American Humor Announces First All Female Trio of Finalists
Time Magazine Annabelle and her Fired! Documentary featured in Time Magazine's 10 Ideas that are Changing the Word