Interruption

What does it mean to truly live with the awareness of death?

Interruption is a beautiful, unflinching, and relentlessly hopeful collection of linked essays from Cameron Steele, a writer who survived three breast cancer diagnoses in three years as a new mother, a scholar of illness narratives, and a working astrologer and tarot reader.

Drawing on ancient and modern occult texts, psychoanalysis, contemporary memoirs and literature, and her own client sessions, Interruption explores motherhood, illness, love, spirituality, and capitalism, without ever settling for the too-easy answer of despair. More than a cancer memoir, it's an illuminating and life-affirming love song to family, nature, the self, and the world we share together.

Written by a prize-winning poet, essayist, and former investigative journalist, and born from her Substack newsletter "Interruptions" (ranked among the platform's top 100 literature newsletters), Interruption: Divinatory Essays on Illness and Narrative expands Cameron Steele's original dispatches into a compelling meditation on what it means not just to survive, but also to truly live.