When to Live-Blog Your Cancer

摘要

Cancer is great material to work with. The comedian Tig Notaro discovered this after making the disease part of her routine. (Opening line: "Hello, I have cancer. How are you?") Dozens of people in my profession-which has always had way too many smokers-wrote themselves into the grave, some quite elegantly. After my own cancer diagnosis, I swore I wasn't going to turn my disease into magazine fodder.