Author and award-winning podcaster Susan Burton will headline the Allen J. Koppenhaver Literary Lecture as part of the 2024-2025 Wittenberg Series, now in its 40th season. Burton will discuss “The Stories We Tell About Pain.” The event is free and open to the public.
Burton is the host, writer, reporter, and co-producer of the Peabody Award-winning podcast series The Retrievals, which recounts the pain experienced by dozens of women undergoing fertility treatment at the Yale Fertility Center. Named the #1 podcast of 2023 by Vulture and Time, the series was selected for numerous “best podcasts of the year” lists, including those from The Atlantic, The Guardian, The Economist, The Financial Times, Fresh Air, and Vogue, and earned an award from the Association of Health Care Journalists.
Burton is also the author of the memoir Empty (Random House 2020), which tells the story of the eating disorders she kept secret for most of her life. The book was selected for Booklist’s Top 10 Memoirs of 2020, Newsweek’s 20 Must-Read Books of the Summer, and Marie Claire’s Best Memoirs 2020 list. An editor at This American Life, she has produced many episodes including “Secrets,” “Ten Sessions,” “Five Women,” “The Thing I’m Getting Over,” and “Tell Me I’m Fat.” Her writing has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate, The New Yorker, and others, and she is a former editor of Harper’s.
For more information on the 2024-25 Wittenberg Series, visit https://www.wittenberg.edu/about-wittenberg/art/wittenberg-series. For more on Susan Burton, visit https://www.wittenberg.edu/news/10-16-24/2024-2025-wittenberg-series-con....
