Graywolf Forum Three: The Business of Memory - The Art of Remembering in an Age of Forgetting: 3 (Gray forum) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 155597287X ISBN 13: 9781555972875

Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S., 1999

Synopsis

Memory is associated as much with computers as it is with people. For this compendium of personal essays, Charles Baxter invited 12 writers to contemplate the externalisation of what was once so deeply personal.

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About the Author

Charles Baxter is the author of several books, including Burning Down the House and Believers. He has been honored with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Baxter lives in Ann Arbor and teaches at the University of Michigan.

From the Back Cover

In the current information age, "memory" is as likely to be an attribute of a computer as a human being. In Graywolf Forum Three: The Business of Memory, editor Charles Baxter invites twelve creative writers to contemplate the externalization of what was once so deeply personal. The resulting essays address a provocative range of topics: the explosion of interest in the memoir; the recovered-memory movement; America in the grip of an "amnesia plague;" the need for coherent stories of our past to help us organize our present; and forgetfulness--political, cultural, and literary--and the shame and allure it holds. Throughout, these fascinating pieces illuminate the art of remembering in a time when memory has become a highly measurable commodity.

Charles Baxter is the author of several books, including Burning Down the House and Believers. He has been honored with an Academy Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Baxter lives in Ann Arbor and teaches at the University of Michigan.

Contributors:

Charles Baxter
Richard Bausch
Karen Brennan
Bernard Cooper
Lydia Davis
Steve Erickson
Alvin Greenberg
Patricia Hampl
Margot Livesey
James A. McPherson
Victoria Morrow
Michael Ryan
Sylvia Watanabe

Edition details

• Publisher: Graywolf Press,U.S.
• Publication date: 1999
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 155597287X
• ISBN 13: 9781555972875
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Baxter Charles