...was just named one of the best essays of 2015 by Longreads.
In case you missed it, here it is: "How Listening to Music and Fighting with Susan Sontag Helped Me Cope with Chemo."
It begins:
Whatever I thought I meant when I said, "Give it to me straight, doc," I wasn't prepared when the radiologist answered, "I thought we would be talking about saving your breast, but now we're looking at whether we can save your life."