Research Catalog

Title

The business of memory : the art of remembering in an age of forgetting / edited by Charles Baxter.

Publication

Saint Paul, Minn. : Graywolf Press, c1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

Baxter, Charles, 1947-

Description

x, 174 p.; 23 cm.

Summary

"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."--Jacket.

Series Statement

Graywolf forum, 1088-3347 ; 3

Uniform Title

Graywolf forum 3.

Alternative Title

Art of remembering in an age of forgetting

Subject

• Autobiographical memory > Miscellanea
• Subjectivity in literature
• Memory > Age factors
• Memory in old age
• Cognition > Age factors
• Cognition in old age
• Human information processing > Age factors
• Memory in old age > Literary collections
• American essays > 20th century

Genre/Form

• Trivia and miscellanea
• Literary collections

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

So long ago / Richard Bausch -- Book of names / Sylvia Watanabe -- Third servant / Margot Livesey -- Don't look / Victoria Morrow -- Dream, memory, story, and the recovery of narrative / Karen Brennan -- El Camino Real / James A. McPherson -- Dog of memory / Alvin Greenberg -- Remember the Van Wagenens / Lydia Davis -- Marketing memory / Bernard Cooper -- Other people's secrets / Patricia Hampl -- Tell me a story / Michael Ryan -- Shame and forgetting in the information age / Charles Baxter -- American nomad / Steve Erickson.

ISBN

155597287X

LCCN

^^^98088485^

OCLC

• 41315857
• SCSB-11157088

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library