All-Nighters is an exploration of insomnia, sleep and the nocturnal life.
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One thing I do when I can’t sleep is play alphabet games. I try to list various things from A to Z: countries, rock groups, prescription drugs, movies, books, celebrities whose first and last names begin with the same letter… you get the idea. I don’t mind repeating categories from one night to another. Diseases might seem to be an unlikely insomnia game category, but for some reason, it’s one of my favorites. I like to combine ailments that terrified me in childhood (lockjaw) with ones that I didn’t know about until I was an adult (Ebola). And there are certain ailments that are never, ever on the list. Ever.
Roz Chast
Roz Chast began contributing to The New Yorker in 1978 and became a staff cartoonist in 1979. Since then, she has contributed over 1,000 drawings and several covers to the magazine. Her most recent collection is “Theories of Everything: Selected, Collected, and Health-Inspected Cartoons, 1978-2006.”
