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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. The resulting essays
address a provocative range of topics: the explosion of interest
in the memoir; the recovered-memory movement; America in the
grip of an "amnesia plague;" the need for coherent
stories of our past to help us organize our present, and forgetfulness--political,
cultural, and literary--and the shame and allure it holds.
Throughout, these fascinating pieces illuminate the art of
remembering in a time when memory had become a highly measurable
commodity.
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