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Podcast: Listen to Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Read a New Short Story   A new short story by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, written for the Serpentine Galleries' new Bridge Commission, is available for download. Twelve world renowned authors have written new pieces to last the duration of the five-minute walk between the Serpentine Gallery and the new Serpentine Sackler Ga...

Mojeed remains leery of participating in collaborative treatment for psychosis. His concern is actually based on medicine; he’s worried about the possibility of negative interactions between pharmaceutical drugs and the sedative, plant-based concoctions he gives his patients. Unless, that is, it could be done sequentially by making referrals when one form of treatment proves ineffective. In that case, he said, “If the government will provide shelter and food for patients, members of Atorise will provide our services for free.”

Other faith healers are similarly open-minded. In Ibadan, I spoke to a pharmacist who says he periodically sells Largactil—the anti-psychotic chlorpromazine—to robe-wearing pastors who administer the drugs dissolved as a cocktail in a glass of holy water. http://internationalreportingproject.org/stories/view/medicine-men

Why Writers Love New York City (and Then Leave It) Sari Botton, Melissa Febos, Mira Ptacin, and Cheryl Strayed discuss what inspired their contributions to Goodbye to All That: Writers on Loving and Leaving New York.

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LIT 360: Writers' Studio Workshop #2