On the evening of Thursday, Jan. 29, in the crowded space of Literati Bookstore, author Jonathan Gleason read from his debut essay collection “Field Guide to Falling Ill” before sitting down in ...

Many books about illness turn sickness into a story. Something happens to the body, and then the body gets diagnosed. The body gets treated and, ideally, the reader is left with closure. “Field Guide ...

The inaugural winner of the Yale Nonfiction Book Prize, this debut collection from Gleason contains enlightening and beautifully written essays on illness and medicine. The title entry recounts his ...

David Gleason (Merrill ’70, Russian literature) first saw UC Santa Cruz in a booklet. It was a campus guide—black and white, about 50 pages long, that had photographs of the newly formed university ...