slider top

Press: All Sources


Sep 2022

The Moth Presents How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling

The definitive guide to telling an unforgettable story in any setting, drawing on twenty-five years of experience from the storytelling experts at The Moth.

Sep 2022

Artist Jenny Holzer Lights Up Rockefeller Center in Tribute to PEN America’s 100 Years of Defending Free Expression

Andrew Solomon’s words were featured in a powerful new series of light projections that illuminated three buildings in Manhattan’s iconic Rockefeller Center.

Sep 2022

Audio: Shadow // Yaddo Podcast: “State of Mind” on Narrative Medicine

This episode of Shadow Yaddo features Andrew Solomon in conversation with Danielle Spencer on the subject of narrative medicine, a field of study that applies skills used in analyzing literature to medicine, and the impacts of storytelling on our health, work and lives.

Jul 2022

Video: Psychologist Explains Why Anger With Gunmen Families Isn’t Always Fair

After a mass shooting, many wonder how the family of a gunman didn’t see the signs, but one expert says the shooter often keeps their plans secret.

Jul 2022

Letter Signed by 44 Writers Calls On President Biden to Raise Grave Human Rights Concerns on Trip to Saudi Arabia

The 2018 murder of Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi, is a tragic and extreme example of the targeting of writers by the Kingdom and the ongoing impunity for grave human rights abuses.

Jun 2022

Audio: Apple News in Conversation: Why child suicide is on the rise

For the New Yorker, Solomon writes about the alarmingly high rate of youth suicide, why it’s on the rise, and why it’s so difficult to prevent. Apple News In Conversation host Shumita Basu spoke with Solomon about this issue.

May 2022

Writing about the unthinkable pain of child suicides

The tendency of bullies to be desperate was one of the real revelations.

Apr 2022

Video: Democracy Now! Subway Shooting Highlights NYC and Nation’s Failure to Address Growing Mental Health Crisis

“Often people who commit homicide are expressing their own despair, their own internal mental health problems, as well as expressing anger and hatred and bias.”

Mar 2022

Andrew Solomon on ‘making your children feel loved’ and the power of parental listening

“It’s easy to legislate against a group of people in the abstract and hard to face up to the individual human cost of doing so. So we have to bring up the next generation of activists who will fight for rights that I believe can be attained.”

Mar 2022

Spot Media Interviews Andrew Solomon: Why Do People Obey Dictators?

It is not easy to overthrow an oppressive leadership. It’s possible, but it’s not easy at all. People are afraid. And they are rightly afraid. Putin is a bully who remembers the image of Saddam Hussein hiding in a hole in the ground and Gaddafi being dragged out of a sewer.