Here’s Alan Cheuse’s review of Stefan Merrill Block’s The Story of Forgetting…. “a debut worth remembering…”
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NPR review of the Story of Forgetting
Posted in books, cultural phenom, tagged Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting on April 8, 2008 |
Young writers and artists turn to dementia
Posted in art, books, cultural phenom, tagged Away From Her, dementia, early on-set Alzheimer's, sarah polley, Stefan Merrill Block, The Story of Forgetting on March 27, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 stretches into the [...]
New short animations on Alzheimer’s
Posted in books, cultural phenom, film, public education, tagged David Shenk, dementia, short films on Alzheimer's, The Forgetting on March 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 DeKosky, Dr. Rudolph Tanzi, [...]
The Bad Daughter Gains Insight
Posted in books, tagged alzheimer's, balanced view, Dancing with Rose, dementia, Lauren Kessler on March 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 [...]
When Memory Slows Down
Posted in books, Uncategorized, tagged Fresh Air, Martha Weinman Lear, memory loss, normal memory loss on February 16, 2008 | 2 Comments »
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 (who is [...]
Is it brain aging? or the “A” word?
Posted in books, cultural phenom, public education, tagged alzheimer's, brain aging, danny george, dementia, memory loss, myth of alzheimer's, peter whitehouse on January 17, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Peter Whitehouse and Danny George’s new book, the Myth of Alzheimer’s is newly published by St. Martin’s Press. The title is more radical than the contents. The symptoms are certainly real. But the name Alzheimer’s assumes a discreet, identifiable disease process that can be cured–and that is where the authors beg to differ. Instead, they [...]
Alzheimer’s in first person
Posted in books, cultural phenom, tagged alzheimer's, autobiography, dementia, early on-set, Richard Taylor on October 9, 2007 |
There are quite a few stories of Alzheimer’s told in first person now. The latest addition to the genre is Richard Taylor’s Alzheimer’s: from the Inside Out (2006). All the autobiographies have something in common – they are all written from the perspective of someone with early-onset (under 65). This means the stories and lives [...]
an act of imagination…
Posted in art, books, cultural phenom, tagged alzheimer's, Complicite, dementia, forget, forgetting, imagination, memory, Mnemonic, theatre on September 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Way back in the spring of 2001, I saw a production in New York by one of my very favorite theater groups in the WORLD, Theatre de Complicite (they also did an amazing Broadway version of Ionesco’s Chairs) The play was called Mnemonic. Here is a line from the opening monologue… “But what I am [...]
