Melissa Block, “In ‘Memory’s Last Breath’ An Academic Confronts Dementia,” NPR Weekend Edition 6-17-2017
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Publication Day: Marissa shows off her copy of MEMORY’S LAST BREATH: FIELD NOTES ON MY DEMENTIA
This morning Newton showed off his e-book version of MEMORY’S LAST BREATH. The fiction writer in me makes a story out of the 2 photos I received and a memory that popped into my head today–from their childhood in South Africa: Newton was 2 and Marissa four and they were playing outside under our big […]
Grateful for the support of @Andrew_Solomon for MEMORY’S LAST BREATH
The amazing Andrew Solomon said wonderful things about MEMORY’S LAST BREATH. In a previous post, I wrote about him and his books, if you want to check it out. Thanks so much, @Andre_Solomon Photo: Annie Leibovitz, from Solomon’s website My publisher, Hachette, made the nice-looking quote cards like the one in this post’s main picture to promote […]
Kirkus Reviews said nice things about MEMORY’S LAST BREATH. Doña Quixote asks: “What is Kirkus Reviews?”
Saunders’ “eloquent, often lyrical book…is remarkable not only for its fiercely honest, sometimes-poetic portrayal of mental decline, but also for the way the author effectively celebrates ‘the magisterial of a mind, the grant of an interval to sound the ordinances of a world without being.’ A courageous, richly textured, and unsparing memoir.” —Kirkus Reviews How […]
Honor Moore said nice things about MEMORY’S LAST BREATH. Doña Quixote asks: “Who is Honor Moore?”
Honor Moore is a playwright, memoirist, editor, and poet. She has written two memoirs, The White Blackbird: A Life of the Painter Margarett Sargent by Her Granddaughter and The Bishop’s Daughter. In The Bishop’s Daughter, Moore writes about her life as the daughter of Paul Moor, an episcopal priest who, at the end of his […]
Andrew Solomon said nice things about MEMORY’S LAST BREATH. Doña Quixote asks: “Who is Andrew Solomon?”
Andrew Solomon (photo: Annie Leibovitz, from Solomon’s website) is a professor of psychology at Columbia University, and a regular contributor to The New Yorker, NPR, and The New York Times Magazine. He is also a gay man raising four children with his partner and a lesbian couple–he and his husband are each the biological father of […]
Michael Gazzaniga said nice things about MEMORY’S LAST BREATH. Doña Quixote asks: “Who is Michael Gazzaniga?”
So who is Michael Gazzaniga? Here is the short answer: More than fifty years ago, Michael Gazzaniga set out on a discovery that underlies all of contemporary neuroscience: that the right- and left hemispheres of the brain can act independently from one another and have different strengths. As a result of the foundational nature of […]