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05/19/2026

Long before modern conversations around chronic illness, George Sand was writing about what it meant to love someone whose body was constantly failing them.

Best known as the fiercely independent French novelist and longtime partner of Frédéric Chopin, Sand documented the emotional realities of illness with striking intimacy: exhaustion, dependence, caregiving, fear, and the quiet reshaping of everyday life.

Her reflections on Chopin’s declining health still feel deeply human nearly two centuries later, which is part of why her spirit lingers so strongly around our newest novel, “This Is How People Die” by Will Cathcart.

Some stories about illness are really stories about survival, tenderness, and the people who stay beside us through it all.

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05/18/2026

What does it mean to live in a body that can suddenly turn unfamiliar?

Wesley Moore III calls “This Is How People Die” “an existential meditation on disease and death,” but Will Cathcart’s debut novel is just as much about survival, fear, memory, and the strange tenderness of continuing on.

Written with the emotional sharpness of someone who has spent years documenting human vulnerability, the novel asks readers to confront mortality without ever losing sight of what makes life feel urgent and beautiful in the first place.

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05/14/2026

If good health is “natural,” what does that make illness?

In this passage from This Is How People Die, Will Cathcart reads a scene that turns over the idea of what we call natural at all. Survival, medicine, the body, the fragile balance between fear and hope. Nothing feels simple here.

Set against a world shaped by memory, illness, and the uneasy miracle of staying alive, the novel asks questions that refuse easy answers. What do we owe the life we get back? And how do we live once we understand how easily it can disappear?

Written by journalist and former war correspondent , “This Is How People Die” is a novel that lingers in the spaces between mortality and gratitude.

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05/11/2026

“How do I write?” is such a simple question, but listening to Will Cathcart answer it, you can hear how much living sits behind the work.

In this video, Will talks about the strange process of turning memory, observation, fear, and experience into fiction. You can feel the years of reporting, witnessing, and questioning underneath every part of This Is How People Die.

The novel wrestles with mortality, survival, and what it means to move through the world knowing how fragile the body really is.

What makes this conversation so compelling is how honest it feels. Not polished or distant, just a writer reflecting on the complicated relationship between life and the stories we tell about it.

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And join us May 14th at 6PM at the Charleston Library Society for the official launch event. Tickets are available through the link in our bio and are going quickly.

05/06/2026

What happens when medicine gives you back a future you thought was already gone?

In today’s reading from “This Is How People Die,” Will Cathcart shares a moment from Scoot’s story that sits right at the edge of fear, relief, and disbelief. A scene where survival suddenly becomes real again. Where gratitude feels almost too large to hold.

Written by journalist and former war correspondent , the novel moves through illness, memory, love, and mortality with a kind of honesty that lingers long after the page ends.

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05/05/2026

Teachers don’t just teach—they shape the stories we carry with us.

This Teacher Appreciation Day, we’re honoring the educators who inspire more than assignments and grades. The ones who spark ideas, encourage creativity, and leave a lasting imprint long after the classroom.

This is How People Die exists because of a teacher who believed in a voice before it was fully formed. And that kind of impact? It stays with you forever.

04/30/2026

What does it mean to outrun the body that made your life feel temporary?

Join us on May 14 for an evening with author Will Cathcart as he shares the making of his debut novel, “This Is How People Die”— a genre-bending story shaped by years of reporting across the globe, surviving illness, and seizing a second lease on life.

📍 6 PM — 164 King Street

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04/28/2026

When a cure comes out of nowhere, what do you do with the second lease on life?

You read “This Is How People Die.” Out Today!

Written by journalist and war correspondant , enjoy Will as he reads an excerpt from the book from a scene called “The Genetic Cosmonaut” where Scoot gets a second lease on life. You can feel the step between the life Scoot knew and the possibility as his whole future gets flipped.

It’s a mind bending literary work of art that everyone can find themselves relating to: our sense of our own mortality.

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ATTEND THE LAUNCH at the Charleston Library Society on May 14th at 6PM.

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04/27/2026

What do we do with the one life we’re given—and how do we make sense of it as it unfolds?

This Is How People Die doesn’t look away from that question. Instead, it moves through it—across time, across forms, across the unpredictable paths a life can take.

As Eric Liebetrau writes, it’s “a philosophically rich, rollicking ride across time and genre,” driven by energy, invention, and a narrative that refuses to sit still.

For Will Cathcart, a former war correspondent, that momentum feels earned. After years spent witnessing the extremes of human experience, he brings that same urgency to the page in a novel that is as searching as it is alive.

We’re so grateful for this generous early praise—and so excited for readers to experience it for themselves.

Preorder now at the link in our bio or at www.eveningpostbooks.com/products/coming-soon-this-is-how-people-die

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