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Episode Synopsis
My brain, I discovered, is like a mouth that demands something to chew. If I don't give it chewables, it starts eating itself.Andrew Leland is the 2024-6 Koeppel Fellow in Journalism at Wesleyan University, and the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Memoir. This story was written by Andrew, and edited by Omar Etman, Jackson Roach, and Liza Yeager. Production and sound design by Jackson Roach and Liza Yeager. Fabian Cereijido was the ghost of Jorge Luis Borges, and Katz Laszlo was the meditation guide. Additional editorial support from Lio Wong, Annie Rosenthal, and the Issue Two cohort.Support the showSignal Hill is a listener-funded nonprofit. Help us continue doing this work by signing up for a monthly membership, and we'll send you our special Inspirations Newsletter, and other nice things.
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