In the autumn of 1902, a young man attending a German military school wrote to the poet Rainer Maria Rilke to ask him for some advice. Rilke responded, and the two struck up a correspondence that has become one of the great moments in the history of literature. For more than a century, Rilke's advice, conveyed in ten l

Amanda Stern is the author of Little Panic: Dispatches from an Anxious Life, a memoir about her undiagnosed childhood panic disorder that takes place in New York City in the Etan Patz era. The subtitle, Dispatches from an Anxious Life, is only a small piece of the puzzle of how the course of Amanda's life was shaped. L

Our whole lives we are taught how to act, how to speak, how to dress, yet we’re never taught how to accept who we are. Amanda Stern is the author of Little Panic and she brings a message to share with us for this episode. Amanda’s always felt different. Something to which many of us can relate. Now, she leaves it all o

Amanda Stern is the author of the memoir LITTLE PANIC: DISPATCHES FROM AN ANXIOUS LIFE (Grand Central Publishing). Stern's first novel "The Long Haul" (Soft Skull Press) was published in 2003. That same year, she launched The Happy Ending Music and Reading Series, producing over 250 shows and welcoming over 700 creativ