Esmé Weijun Wang

thumb|Wang in 2018 Esmé Weijun Wang is an American writer. Quotes I have been taking these photographs as I am dead, and then I look back at these photographs to re-experience what it was like, as someone who experienced themselves as a dead person. And they’re the same. It’s very much the same experience, just one is visual and one is more verbal. Both are ways to get through a very difficult experience, and they’re also ways to remember it. On using various mediums to highlight an experience in “Schizophrenia Terrifies: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang” in The Paris Review (2019 Feb 4) I often say that medicine seems great if you have a broken arm, but if you end up with some more mysterious ailment, or a confusing autoimmune disorder, then you will become obsessed with the color of the coconut water you drink. The more lost I became in terms of my own health, my own mental illness and chronic illness, whether that was named late-stage Lyme disease or dysautonomia, or whether that was named “the mysterious autoimmune disorder that nobody could figure out,” the more I was searching… On feeling certainty of safety when young in “Schizophrenia Terrifies: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang” in The Paris Review (2019 Feb 4) I do want to be careful not to glamorise mental illness when it comes to creativity because more often than not it actually tends to inhibit creativity… On avoiding perpetuating stereotypes about mental illness in “Esmé Weijun Wang: ‘I don’t want to glamorise mental illness… it inhibits creativity’” in The Guardian (2019 Jun29) I believe, behind what’s called “narrative therapy,” which uses storytelling to distance a person from their experiences in order to tell a different story about their lives. Because we often are the life stories that we tell ourselves about who we are; we create the scaffolding that we hang our narratives upon. Is this a treatment? I think so… On people creating their own narratives in “Reaping the Blooms: An Interview with Esmé Weijun Wang” in Columbia Journal (2019 Mar 5) External links Category:Taiwanese Americans Category:Novelists from the United States Category:Living people Category:Women authors from the United States