During a long, debilitating illness doctors failed to diagnose, author Gabrielle Glancy had enough energy to save Facebook screenshots, but not enough to write. The award-winning poet and nationally known college admissions expert later wove them into a book about her ordeal. I'm Already Disturbed Please Come In: Parasites, Social Media & Other Planetary Disturbances (A Memoir, of Sorts)critiques Western medicine and social media, and examines love in sickness and in health. Gabrielle Glancy is Eric Jansen's guest on Out in the Bay, 7pm Thursday, July 2.* Hear her read from her book and talk about the issues it raises.
*(This interview was first broadcast March 5, 2015. At the end of our original broadcast archived here is a morsel of music from Home Street Home, a provocative rock opera about homeless youth, drugs and BDSM that wrapped up its world premiere run Saturday, 3/7/15, at Z Space in San Francisco.)