Andrea J. Buchanan

The Beginning of Everything

Finalist for the 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing

A real-life neurological mystery―and captivating story of reinvention―by New York Times bestselling writer Andrea J. Buchanan.

“Buchanan chronicles a year of physical and mental anguish in this disturbing memoir of an enigmatic illness. … Readers will be fascinated by this introspective medical journey and heartened by the simultaneous healing of a family.” —Publishers Weekly

“Andrea J. Buchanan’s The Beginning of Everything is truly ‘music emanating from a broken place,’ a breathtaking, life-affirming, gorgeously composed marvel.”—Gayle Brandeis, author of The Art of Misdiagnosis

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Press for The Beginning of Everything

Write-Minded Podcast

The Unreliable Narrator: Writing What You Don’t or Can’t Remember, featuring Andi Buchanan in conversation with Brooke Warner and Grant Faulkner.

Narratively

An interview with Narratively contributor Andrea J. Buchanan on about her recovery, her approach to memoir writing, and what’s in store for her in the future.

Lenny: Lit Thursday

In this chapter from The Beginning of Everything, author Andrea J. Buchanan writes about how she coped when doctors wouldn’t believe her unrelenting headaches.

Assay

An interview by Sonya Huber for The Assay Interview Project, from Assay: A Journal of Nonfiction Studies

The Book Show

An interview with Joe Donahue for WAMC Northeast Public Radio’s “The Book Show”

NYS Writers Institute

An interview with Paul Grondahl for the New York State Writers Institute podcast

Spinal CSF Leak Foundation

An interview with Dr. Connie Deline of the Spinal CSF Leak Foundation

Longreads: Excerpt

In Surviving the Shattering of My Mind and My Marriage, Andrea J. Buchanan contemplates the way illness and pain can freeze a sufferer in time, as if encased in glass.

LiteraryMama: Excerpt

The Accident is a raw, intense chapter from Andrea J. Buchanan’s latest book, The Beginning of Everything.

PEN America Literary Awards

The Beginning of Everything is named as a 2019 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award Finalist

Real Women, Real Stories

A podcast with Andrea J. Buchanan sharing the story of her diagnosis and recovery, as well as how she coped with the daily challenges CSF Leak patients experience

WNYC

An interview with Alison Stewart for WNYC’s Midday on the year that changed Andrea’s life.

The Rumpus

Translating the untranslatable: A conversation with Andrea J. Buchanan