{"id":2622,"date":"2013-02-28T15:35:29","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T19:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/?p=2622"},"modified":"2014-01-26T19:44:26","modified_gmt":"2014-01-26T23:44:26","slug":"life-stories-24-nick-flynn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/2013\/02\/28\/life-stories-24-nick-flynn\/","title":{"rendered":"Life Stories #24: Nick Flynn"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nphoto: Matthieu Bourgeois<\/font><\/p>\n

In this episode of Life Stories<\/i>, my podcast series of interviews with memoir writers about their lives and the art of writing memoir, I talk to Nick Flynn<\/a> about his latest memoir, The Reenactments<\/i><\/a>, which describes (among other things) what it was like to be on the set as his first memoir, Another Bullshit Night in Suck City<\/i>, was turned into the motion picture Being Flynn<\/i><\/a>. (And, of course, we talk about knowing that he was never going to get to keep the original title once the movie got seriously underway…)<\/p>\n

The Reenactments<\/i> also reflects Flynn’s deep interest in the neuroscience of memory, with insights drawn from Antonio Damasio, Vilayanur Ramachandran, David Eagleman, and others. And we talk a bit about the glass flower exhibit<\/a> at the Harvard Museum of Natural History, which Flynn visited as a child and continues to move him as a metaphor for how we try to retain our pasts and carry them over into the present.<\/p>\n

Listen to Life Stories<\/i> #24: Nick Flynn<\/a> (MP3 file); or download the file by right-clicking (Mac users, option-click).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nick Flynn’s third memoir is partially about the experience of watching as a movie gets made of his first memoir — but it’s also a meditation on the nature of memory and our attempts to preserve it — not just in our brains but for posterity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[272],"tags":[536,538,132,537,305,535],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3299,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2622\/revisions\/3299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/beatrice.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}