Episode 98: At the End of Sight

Episode #98

2024-09-18 05:00:10

Writer Andrew Leland talks with Phoebe about slowly losing his eyesight. He was diagnosed with the degenerative eye disease Retinitis pigmentosa when he was in high school. “It was like, ‘I’m going out in the woods with my friends at night. And oddly enough, I’m bad at it.'”

Andrew Leland’s memoir, The Country of the Blind, A Memoir at the End of Sight, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.

Episode transcript will be posted here as soon as it is available.