Overdrawn at the Psychic Bank Account

This year has been emotionally costly; can we reinvest?

Susan Orlean
GEN
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3 min readApr 13, 2021

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To begin with, let me say I have been lucky, lucky, lucky during the pandemic. I’ve been able to work with almost no disruption. I’ve been healthy, and my family has been healthy. Now we’re vaccinated. Most of the people we know have made it through this year in pretty good shape, which is, of course, a…

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Susan Orlean
GEN
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Staff writer, The New Yorker. Author of The Library Book, The Orchid Thief, and more…Head of my very own Literati.com book club (join me!)