“Memory, in short, is engraved not merely by the life we have led but by the life of the mind…by all the lives we so nearly led but missed by an inch, and—if we grant enough leeway to the imagination—by the lives of others, which can cut into ours every bit as sharply as our own experience.” – Anthony Lane, writing about W.G. Sebald in The New Yorker (May 29, 2000)
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My Father’s Guns (part 1)
©2007, originally published in Center: A Journal of the Literary Arts, Vol. 6, “My Father’s Guns,” by Kara Frye [Krauze] * Several names (of people not related to my father by blood or marriage) and some physical details have been … Continue reading
Posted in EXIT WOUND: Suicide is Not a Love Story, Memoir, Memory, Suicide
Tagged depression, grief, memoir, memory, suicide, suicide survivors, writing
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Remembering—who we are
I’ve been dipping into a fascinating book, In Search of Memory, by Eric R. Kandel, winner of the 2000 Nobel Prize. A particular passage has been sticking in my head in which Kandel addresses “the role of memory and dysfunction … Continue reading
Posted in Memoir, Memory, Suicide, Writing & Reading
Tagged Austin Ratner, depression, Eric Kandel, Freud, grief, In Search of Memory, memory, mental illness, narrative, The Jump Artist, writing
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