"Hypochondria tends to be regarded as the exaggeration if not complete fabrication of ailments or illness. In this important and beautifully written book, however, Mintz provides a very different account of essential expression, profound reflection, and often untapped potential for making meaningful personal and sociocultural connections." -- David Bolt, professor, Liverpool Hope University and director of the Centre for Culture and Disability Studies
"Hypochondria is a capacious and audacious book—capacious in its investigation of an impressive range of representations of the condition, audacious in its open-mindedness toward this often dismissed, if not maligned, complaint. Mintz regards hypochondria as a legitimate 'identity position,' a not necessarily pathological reaction to being a bodymind. Indeed, she dares to suggest that hypochondria poses a challenge to compulsory healthiness that we should attend to, rather than disregard." -- G. Thomas Couser, professor of English and founding director of Disability Studies Program, Hofstra University
"Mintz provides a fresh and rich account of the surprisingly creative and communicative potential of hypochondria, attentive to what it reveals about medical and ableist norms, old age, care, and discrimination. The pleasure of reading Hypochondria comes not only from its honed prose but the challenge it poses to think, even to know, differently." -- Jennifer Cooke, professor of English, Loughborough University, author of "Contemporary Feminist Life-writing: The New Audacity"
Love Affair in the Garden of Milton wins 2023 Memoir Book Prize in the category of Identity, Literature, and Grief
From Memoir Magazine: "We continue to be amazed by the exciting ways writers are expanding the Memoir genre to express their life stories and emotional truths."
https://memoirmag.com/the-memoir-prize-winner/2023-memoir-book-prize-winners/
Unruly Bodies mentioned in essay "AOC’s Attractiveness Drives Us All Mad"
Oct 29, 2020
Unruly Bodies receives shout out in a piece published by sociologist, writer, and 2020 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship (a.k.a., the "Genius Grant") recipient Tressie McMillan Cottom. McMillan Cottom's essay, titled "AOC's Attractiveness Drives Us All Mad," concludes by recommending Unruly Bodies as "a good place to start on what it might look like if we developed a richer language for bodies and power."
https://tressiemcphd.medium.com/aocs-attractiveness-drives-us-all-mad-8c16a8654f9
Ask the Experts: Best & Worst Cities for People with Disabilities
Sept 29, 2020
Susannah included in panel of experts for WalletHub's "Best & Worst Cities for People with Disabilities" list
https://wallethub.com/edu/best-worst-cities-for-people-with-disabilities/7164#
2020 Prose Award Finalist
Feb 25th, 2020
G. Thomas Couser and Susannah B. Mintz's "Disability Experiences: Memoirs, Autobiographies, and Other Personal Narratives"
named a finalist for the
2020 Prose Award from the Association of American Publishers
Bloom Q&A with Susannah B. Mintz
June 18, 2014
Wendy Siegelman interviews Susannah about "Match Dot Comedy"