An Interview with C. Dale Young

Poetry faculty member C. Dale Young was recently interviewed in Lithub about his experience of being a physician and writer during the Covid-19 pandemic. Read an excerpt below:

“With writing, it’s been interesting. I’m working on a novel manuscript that I actually left alone for about a year. And during the pandemic, I went back to it, and I realized after a while that I think I went back to it because there was a strange comfort in just being lost and looking at paragraphs and cutting things, honing things, doing the sentence work… that I could lose hours where I didn’t have to think about this virus. I, at first, thought that it was just doctors, but I’ve learned by talking to other people that virtually no one sleeps through the night anymore. So, if I can find four hours to just play with words, it’s actually been kind of a huge relief to have that….”

Listen to the interview here: https://lithub.com/aiming-to-heal-when-there-is-no-cure-daniela-lamas-and-c-dale-young-on-doctoring-and-our-pandemic-future/