Cody Delistraty is a journalist and author in New York City.
His 2024 book The Grief Cure: Looking for the End of Loss was published by Harper and nominated for PEN America’s PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction. It considers the contemporary frontiers of grief, where the author seeks out those around the world looking to face the pain of loss in novel ways. From book prescriptions to laughter therapy, psilocybin to artificial intelligence, what ultimately emerges is not a “cure” but a fresh understanding of what living with grief truly means today.
He is currently writing a nonfiction history book on a controversial group of Spiritualist philosophers, psychologists, and writers who attempted to prove the afterlife in the waning years of Victorian London.
As a journalist, he most frequently contributes to The New York Times, where he writes on the history of technology. He previously worked at The Wall Street Journal‘s magazine as its culture editor and at The Paris Review as its European arts columnist. British Vogue named him one of the best young writers of the year.
He holds degrees in history and politics from Oxford, NYU, and the Institut d’études politiques de Paris.
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