Paul Auster remembers the car accident that nearly killed him and his family. It’s one of a series of brushes with death from his new book, "Winter Journal." Auster also recalls dirty fights as a child, sitting next to his mother’s lifeless body as an adult, the crumbling of his first marriage and the slow breakdown of his own body over time. Paul Auster joins us to talk about aging, death and the power of the written word.
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Paul Auster’s “Winter Journal”
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Matthew Klam reads Charles D’Ambrosio’s “The Point”
Matthew Klam reads Charles D’Ambrosio’s "The Point" and discusses it with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman. "The Point" was published in the October 1, 1990, issue of The New Yorker and was the title story of D’Ambrosio’s first collection. Matthew Klam’s most recent book of stories is "Sam the Cat."
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Forever Young? The Science of Immortality with Jonathan Weiner and Judith Campisi
Let’s think about life, and how much of it you want. Would you like to live to 80? 90? 100? What about two hundred? Five hundred? Maybe a thousand years?
Suddenly, the relatively young science of gerontology – of aging – is rubbing noses with the ancient dream of immortality. Or at least very, very long life.
Should we accept aging as a part of life? Could we banish aging? And if we could, should we?
This Hour, On Point: we’ll talk with Pulitzer prize-winning writer Jonathan Weiner about science dreaming big of super-longevity, maybe of immortality.
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Aubrey de Grey: The End of Aging
Hear how Aubrey de Grey, a British biomedical gerontologist, thinks science can help extend our lives by decades. De Grey spoke as part of S&C’s Fall Provocative Thinkers series.
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To The Best of Our Knowledge: Facing Death
Aubrey de Grey thinks there’s no reason why people can’t go on living indefinitely. Umberto Eco has some thoughts in favor of death. Diana Athill has written her second memoir at the age of 91. Simon Critchley wrote a quirky account of how various philosophers thought about death and died themselves. Lincoln Hall survived apparent death on Mount Everest.
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New Yorker Fiction - John Updike’s “Playing with Dynamite”
Roger Angell reads John Updike’s short story "Playing with Dynamite," and talks with The New Yorker’s fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about editing Updike.
http://www.newyorker.com/online/2009/02/09/090209on_audio_angell
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Late Bloomers
Malcolm Gladwell asks why we equate genius with precocity. Here Gladwell talks about how artistic prodigies differ from late bloomers and the kinds of support over decades that some artists need to realize their gifts.
The full article is here: http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/10/20/081020fa_fact_gladwell
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