Rebecca Schiller: How to Write a Literary Memoir About Neurodivergency


Author: Andrew Keen May 1, 2022 Duration: 27:29
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Rebecca Schiller: How to Write a Literary Memoir About Neurodivergency

Hosted by Andrew Keen, Keen On features conversations with some of the world’s leading thinkers and writers about the economic, political, and technological issues being discussed in the news, right now.

In this episode, Andrew is joined by Rebecca Schiller, author of A Thousand Ways to Pay Attention: A Memoir of Coming Home to My Neurodivergent Mind.

Rebecca Schiller is cofounder and trustee of the human rights organization Birthrights and a regular contributor to The Guardian. She is also the author of Your No Guilt Pregnancy Plan and the children’s book Amazing Activists Who Are Changing Our World. On their small homestead in the English countryside, Rebecca and her family raise a motley crew of goats, geese, ducks, and chickens, and grow vegetables, fruit, and flowers to restore wildlife to the land. She lives in Kent, UK.


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