Michael Clune's Next Act? A Novel About Panic Attacks.

Michael Clune's Next Act? A Novel About Panic Attacks.

In my 33 years of life, I’ve only stopped one plane from taking off, though I was later kicked out of two airports for experiencing public panic attacks. They’re difficult to represent successfully in prose, but when I read Michael Clune’s Pan, narrated by Nick, a teenager who, at the age of 15, starts getting panic attacks that he attributes to being possessed by Pan, the Greek god, I wanted to speak to the author. I had read Clune’s memoir of …