Category Archives: memoir

Aldous Huxley on Hospice Care

Posted on August 13, 2019 by seanarthurjoyce

Aldous Huxley has since my youth been a huge influence on my thought and writing. Most famous for his essential novel of technological dystopia, Brave New World, his essays and novels spanned almost every conceivable topic in the arts and … Continue reading →

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Laundry Lines—Telegraphing Memory and Experience

Posted on October 5, 2015 by seanarthurjoyce

Normally I wouldn’t have much interest in a collection so firmly based in women’s experience. It’s a history I can’t possibly hope to understand at the same level as a woman. But Laundry Lines by Ann Elizabeth Carson goes far … Continue reading →

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Memoirs—Sideways and Otherwise

Posted on September 30, 2015 by seanarthurjoyce

“If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other … Continue reading →

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