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In ‘Radical Endurance,’ author Andrea Gilats looks clear-eyed at the mental health impact of aging
Read a really interesting interview with Andy about how her own life experiences found their way into Radical Endurance in MinnPost, Minnesota’s revered online news site. Journalist Andy Steiner, who conducted the interview, specializes in mental health, so that’s the focus of the conversation.
Read at MinnPost.com
An Ageist Disease: On Living in Fear of Alzheimer’s
Read a chapter from Radical Endurance about Alzeimer’s disease on Lit Hub, the widely read and loved national site that is “a single, trusted, daily source for all the news, ideas and richness of contemporary literary life.” While you’re there, you might enjoy browsing all the great content they offer.
Read at LitHub.com
Listen to podcast: MN Reads: "Radical Endurance"
Listen to an eleven-minute interview with Luke Moravec on the The North 103.3, Duluth, Minnesota’s public radio station. It’s an enthusiastic conversation that touches on several important issues and offers bits of Andy’s philosophy on living well as we age. The interview is part of the The North’s MN Reads program.
Listen at: thenorth1033.org
Read: edited excerpt frm Radical Endurance
Read: MyVillager article
Video Podcast with Catherine and Gail
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Read Some Resonant Excerpts from Radical Endurance
The venerable Minnesota Women’s Press, for their September 2024 issue, has selected several short excerpts from Andy’s new memoir, Radical Endurance: Growing Old in an Age of Longevity, and created an article from them titled “Presenting as My Age.” The issue’s theme is “Aging Bodies,” a phenomenon we can’t escape!
Listen to Andy’s podcast interview with Gloria and Heidi Horsley of Open to Hope
With more than two million visitors per month, Open to Hope is a sought-after website for sharing our stories of loss, grief, and healing. In this 18 minute visual podcast, Andy discusses both her books, After Effects: A Memoir of Complicated Grief and Restoring Flexibility: A Gentle, Yoga-Based Practice to Increase Mobility at Any Age. The result is delightful!
Listen to Andy’s Podcast Conversation with Irish Grief Expert Liz Gleeson
“The hardest part of writing about my grief was reliving it.”
In this interview with Whitney Jacobson for the Split Rock Review, a literary journal published by the University of Minnesota, Duluth, I discuss my writing process as I worked on After Effects, I hail some books and authors who have influenced me, and I talk about how I’m living my own version of a writing life.
read: Interview with Whitney Jacobson in the Split Rock Review
“Something just shut off in me.”
In this candid interview published in MinnPost, Minnesota’s nationally respected nonprofit online newsroom, I talk with health and addiction journalist Andy Steiner about the differences between normal grief and complicated grief. I also discuss how, after more than a decade of disabling grief, I found my way out of the depths of sadness, and why I feel memoirs are such powerful healing tools.
Photos of Andy by Sara Tucker
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Photos of Andy by Sara Tucker