In a new book, writer Suleika Jaouad explains why journaling is a form of alchemy — and offers tips on how to reignite your ...

CAIRA: Oh yeah. SULEIKA: — journals, Virginia Woolf, Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals. I love Frida Kahlo’s journals, because they’re a kind of hybrid of writing and painting.

Author and artist Suleika Jaouad on the creative process, coexisting with fear, and the magic of unstructured time. On the hardest night of Suleika Jaouad’s life—“the closest she has ever ...

Jaouad’s memoir was a success, and she had launched a pandemic-inspired writing project called Isolation Journals. Then they learned that her leukemia had returned.

In it she discerned that the purpose of writing things down, for better or worse, is to: “Remember what it was to be me: that is always the point,” Or, as she writes, to stay on “nodding ...

At age 22, Suleika Jaouad was diagnosed with leukemia. She began writing the New York Times column and Emmy-wining video series " Life, Interrupted " from the front lines of her hospital bed.

Then, Jaouad "just blurted out: That's the man I'm going to marry someday." In February, the couple marked their third wedding anniversary — and three years since Jaouad’s bone marrow transplant.

That same day in November 2021, Jaouad began treatment for leukemia after years of being in remission. “It became an even broader aperture of what a documentary of this period of time would be.

Jon Batiste and his wife Suleika Jaouad walked the 2024 Grammy red carpet after she missed the 2022 show due to a relapse of her leukemia. He told PEOPLE in November he is happy to have her by his ...

Why Suleika Jaouad Said 'That's the Man I’m Going to Marry Someday' When She Reconnected with Husband Jon Batiste at Age 16 Jaouad and Batiste celebrated their third wedding anniversary in February ...