The Best of the Bellevue Literary Review
by Danielle Ofri (Editor)
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Selections from the well-regarded magazine featuring fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.Tags
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A 2008 anthology of ~90 short stories, essays, and poems drawn from the NYU School of Medicine’s semi-annual literary journal.
Each entry deals in some way with illness or coping, although sometimes minimally and often peripherally. There are doctors and hospitals, but most of the pieces are about people in ordinary community. Combined, they threaten toward darkness. Yet in the midst there’s a hilarious, satirical fantasy, and poems that left me with a "Wow!"
All of the writing is first-rate -- after nearly every entry, I found myself flipping to the contributor bios in the back to learn more about the writer. Profoundly moving and highly recommended.
Each entry deals in some way with illness or coping, although sometimes minimally and often peripherally. There are doctors and hospitals, but most of the pieces are about people in ordinary community. Combined, they threaten toward darkness. Yet in the midst there’s a hilarious, satirical fantasy, and poems that left me with a "Wow!"
All of the writing is first-rate -- after nearly every entry, I found myself flipping to the contributor bios in the back to learn more about the writer. Profoundly moving and highly recommended.
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Danielle Ofri, MD, PhD, is a clinical professor of medicine at the New York University School of Medicine and has cared for patients at New York's Bellevue Hospital for more than two decades. She is the author of seven acclaimed books, and her writing appears in the New Yorker and the New York Times.
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