Posted in books, cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged alzheimer's, books, David Shenk, dementia, films, The Forgetting on June 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Looks like PBS will be rebroadcasting The Forgetting this summer.
I have mixed feelings.
On the one hand, the film certainly has been a powerful tool for raising awareness. The local feeds afterward, which feature more nuanced discussions of the experience of dementia, are very informative and moving.
But the film itself is pure tragic narrative. [...]
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Posted in books, cultural phenom, public education, tagged alzheimer's, books on dementia, can't remember what I forgot, carved in sand, stigma, Story of Forgetting, Where did I leave my glasses on June 3, 2008 | No Comments »
When I was first pitching Forget Memory to agents, a very successful agent whom I admire a great deal told me that it was a great idea, but that unfortunately, in her experience, “dementia doesn’t sell.” I just got word today that Lisa Genova’s book Still Alice, which she initially self-published, has been picked up [...]
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As the population ages, the marker of “normal” in memory loss will continue to shift. There are several books out now that address the worry over memory loss in all its manifestations - from seemingly benign to the significant losses in the dementia experience. The latest entry is coming out this month from [...]
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I had a conversation yesterday with a friend who had just talked with some of the fascinating folks doing person-centered dementia care in Australia. There is lots of work happening internationally that fell out of the scope of Forget Memory (which is United States-centric), and I start this series of entries to draw people’s attention [...]
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I picked up the book at Kramer’s (another favorite independent bookstore) in D.C. when I was there for the American Society on Aging in March. I started reading in a cramped Thai restaurant (sipping my favorite soup) and finished on the plane to Florida a week later. But the characters are so inviting [...]
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Here’s Alan Cheuse’s review of Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting….
“a debut worth remembering…”
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I ran out to Harry Schwartz bookstore this morning (just as it opened) to pick up the new novel by Stefan Block, The Story of Forgetting, but it’s not due in the store until April 1st - no joke. Block’s book received a great review today in the NYT’s. Block’s novel playfully [...]
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There are 4 new short “pocket” films about Alzheimer’s disease out and available for open use. They are made by the team that brought us The Forgetting (the film and book). David Shenk, author of The Forgetting, wrote and directed the pieces. Naomi Boak (exec. producer of the Forgetting), Dr. Steven [...]
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Lauren Kessler didn’t handle her mother’s dementia very well. Haunted by how things might have been, the writer applied for a job as a care assistant in a nursing home near her home in Oregon. Dancing with Rose: finding life in the land of alzheimer’s is the chronicle of her experiences and deepening understanding of [...]
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Martha Weinman Lear was on Terry Gross’ Fresh Air on Feb. 15th. She has a new book called Where Did I Leave My Glasses? that explores the how and why of normal memory loss. Lear is an accomplished writer and the age in her voice gives her a gravitas that Catherine Ramin Jakobson’s [...]
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