In “How to Lose Your Mother,” Jong-Fast lays bare a terrible time in her life, when she put her mother, the writer Erica Jong ...

The result is her new novel, The Rest Is Memory, which imagines Kwoka's life at Auschwitz. In today's episode, Tuck speaks with NPR's Scott Simon about how she approaches narrating a story through ...

There could hardly be a more urgent or necessary moment for the arrival of Lydia Millet’s exceptional new book, “We Loved It All: A Memory ... story — a profoundly evocative ode to life ...

She tells us when she is getting lost in the story, and where her memory goes blank ... the excavation of her own life. “I would go so far as to judge my previous books as vague approximations ...

The main character of the book, Xavier, is a veteran mixed martial ... Xavier's experience as a fighter is secondary to the larger story about memory loss. In addition to his own memory loss ...

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This metaphor is beautifully articulated by psychologists Ciara Greene and Gillian Murphy in their new book, Memory Lane ... But so can written stories, gossip from a neighbor or a leading ...

In her viral video, Weitz shows memory books she purchased from Temu designed to capture her parents' life stories. "My mom ...

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Khemiri explained the novel was partly inspired by a childhood story about his ... that found that in those books, so thank you very much for that.” Khemiri’s visit was more than a reading — it was a ...