Author Talk: Rachel Zimmerman (Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide) in conversation with Ellen Barry

MIT Press welcomes Rachel Zimmerman, author of Us, After: A Memoir of Love and Suicide in conversation with New York Times reporter Ellen Barry.

Rachel Zimmerman, an award-winning journalist, has written about health and medicine for more than two decades.  She currently contributes stories on mental health to The Washington Post and previously worked as a staff writer for The Wall Street Journal and a health reporter for WBUR, Boston's public radio station.  Her essays and articles have been published in The New York Times; Vogue; The Cut; O, the Oprah Magazine; The Atlantic; Slate; The Huffington Post; and Brevity, among others.

Us, After is an exploration of rebuilding family following a suicide.  In this memoir, Zimmerman examines domestic devastation and, ultimately, discovers the good in what remains.

Ellen Barry covers mental health for The New York Times.  She was previously the paper's London-based chief international correspondent and the bureau chief in New Delhi and Moscow, and a reporter for The Boston Globe.