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It was his final book, a hybrid memoirfiction about his cancer diagnosis, memory, and reflections on death.
His new book is called Departures. It's part memoir, part fiction. The memoir sections are about his diagnosis and his reflections on death, why he's agnostic, the power and unreliability of memory, a...
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Episode: Best Of: Novelists Liz Moore & Julian Barnes
It was his final book, a hybrid memoirfiction about his cancer diagnosis, memory, and reflections on death.
His new book is called Departures. It's part memoir, part fiction. The memoir sections are about his diagnosis and his reflections on death, why he's agnostic, the power and unreliability of memory, and how his memory has been diminishing with age.
I really like your new book a lot. I found it very meaningful. Good, good.
In a way, his new book is a companion to his book Levels of Life.