Called Back: My Reply to Cancer, My Return to Life

Mary Cappello’s seven books of literary nonfiction include Awkward: A Detour (a Los Angeles Times bestseller); Swallow, based on the Chevalier Jackson Foreign Body Collection in Philadelphia’s Mütter Museum; the mood fantasia, Life Breaks In; and, most recently, Lecture, a lyric manifesto on the lost art of the lecture, the notebook and the nap. A Guggenheim and Berlin Prize Fellow, a recipient of the Dorothea-Lange/Paul Taylor Prize, and the Bechtel Prize for Educating the Imagination, Cappello is a former Fulbright Lecturer at the Gorky Literary Institute (Moscow), and currently Professor of English and creative writing at the University of Rhode Island. www.marycappello.com