Literature of Memory — Human memory is notoriously tricky. But for novelists, that unreliability makes memory an especially fertile ground for fiction. We’ll talk with some celebrated writers about truth, fiction and memory.
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Big Ideas: Minding Memory
What’s in a memory? An original in the field of memory research, Endel Tulving shares his insights. Mental time-travel through what he terms "episodic memory" may have been one of "the drivers of the evolution of culture". A free-wheeling conversation with Marilyn Powell about memory and the mind.
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Science Friday Audio Podcast
What Your Genes can tell you about your Memory — Researchers are studying how gene regulation influences memory.
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Life Stages In Literature
We can go through life with such a terrible poverty of self-awareness. A poverty so deep we do not possess our own lives. Youth is a blur. Middle age can be a grind and old age, a brutal humbling.
But turn to literature – great literature – and awareness is there, says my guest today.
From Huck Finn on the river to King Lear at his end. Toni Morrison’s Sula. Virgina Woolf’s day-dreaming mother. The stories and insights to place us, ground us, in our own lives. Literature can get at the heart of what we’re doing and the experience we share can be illuminated.