Senior Moments: Looking Back, Looking Ahead
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| Rating | : | 4.47 (723 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1250141184 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Mayo"Senior Moments is a pleasant, wide-ranging journey taken with a friend who knows how to provoke important thoughts and concerns, in the midst of wry smiles and laughter." Si Dunn, Lone Star Literary Life. Um, can I get back to you?" Chip Kidd“Aging is our universal condition: the only question is whether we approach our seniority kicking and screaming or proceed with some degree of style and, let us hope, capacity for happiness. You’ll want to enjoy Spiegelman’s Senior Moments slowly." Charmaine Chan, South China Post"Senior Moments is a memoir that surprises and enchants."Colin Harrington, Berkshire Eagle"An eloquent fusion of memoir and essay, “Senior Moments” is at its heart a toast to life, art and the pursuit and appreciation of Quality. Readers will find
From 1984 until 2016, he was also the editor in chief of Southwest Review. He has written many books and essays about English and American poetry. For more than a quarter century he has been a regular contributor to the Leisure & Arts pages of The Wall Street Journal. . Willard Spiegelman is the Hughes Professor of English at Southern Methodist University in Dallas
Jonathan Densford said My favorites of these wonderful essays about language. My favorites of these wonderful essays about language, place, art, and culture were JAPAN and BOOKS. However, the section of the chapter ART relating the author's experience of Janet Cardiff's "Forty-Part Motet" was so powerful that I was moved to plan a trip to K. "You need not be a senior (I'm not) to love this book!" according to Amazon Customer. Such a fun, eureka-provoking and, best of all, HOPEFUL hybrid of memoir, travelogue and meditation on age (every age, really). His short essay on visiting Japan, for example, isn't about Japan—it's about how even glancing immersion in the exotic changes us, . Entertaining and inspiring R. F. Shapard If you were attracted to this book by its title, you’ll find that it lives up to its promise but offers much more than reminiscences and speculation. In a culture that finds inspiration in Internet memes, I found it refreshing to be reminded of the consolati
It is guaranteed to stimulate, stir, and restore.. Senior Moments is a series of discrete essays that, when taken together, constitute the life of a man who, despite Western cultural notions of aging as something to be denied, overcome, and resisted, has continued to relish the simplest of pleasures: reading, looking at art, talking, and indulging in occasional fits of nostalgia while also welcoming what inevitably lies ahead.Senior Moments is a foray into the felicity and follies that age brings; a consideration of how and what one reads or rereads in late adulthood; the eagerness for, and disappointment in, long-awaited reunions, at which the past comes alive in the present. Drawing on more than six decades’ worth of lessons from his storied career as a writer and professor, Willard Spiegelman reflects with candid humor and sophistication on growing old