Originally a series of talks sponsored by Book-of-the-Month Club and held at the New York Public Library in the Winter of 1986.
Bibliography
Bibliography: pages [149]-166.
Contents
Writing and remembering: a memoir and an introduction / William Zinsser -- Life with mother / Russell Baker -- To fashion a text / Annie Dillard -- The past breaks out / Alfred Kazin -- The site of memory / Toni Morrison -- A long line of cells / Lewis Thomas.