Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
Joshua Prager: Usta Yazarlardan Yaşamın Her Yılına Dair Bilgelikler
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
olacağını hissediyorum,
particular in store for me,
okuduğum için.
(Gece Orduları) adlı kitabında,
and sentiment to be a man,
somut cismi gibiydi,
wasn't writing about me.
yazmadığını biliyorum.
the subject of his book,
kitabının öznesi,
along the same great sequence:
mükemmel sırada ilerliyordu:
and confinements of childhood;
and frustrations of adolescence;
and millstones of adulthood;
and resignations of old age.
kabullenmelerine kadar.
başına geldiği gibi bana da gelecek."
"It will happen to me as to them."
where they become narratives
kim olacağımızı anlatır.
if it passes into anything."
sayfalara geçer."
a thought leapt to mind:
aklıma bir fikir geldi:
there were, somewhere,
bir yerlerde,
assemble them into a narrative.
bir hikâyede toplayabilirdim.
wrote William Trevor.
düşünmeye meraklıydım.
and later an injury to me
ve sonrasındaki bir rahatsızlığım
could not be assumed.
açıkça gösterdi.
only postponed the inevitable,
sadece kaçınılmazı erteliyor,
what circumstance did not.
zaman gösteriyordu.
year by vulnerable year
kroniğini çıkarmak,
what was fleeting,
ve dayanmak olacaktı.
a glimpse into the future,
kendimin ve diğerlerinin
bir bakış sağlayacaktı.
I was quickly obsessed,
hemen kafama takıldı,
for ages and ages.
sayfalar dolusu araştırma yaptım.
through our first hundred years.
her yılki adımda işte böyleydik:
of sudden revelations,"
aydınlanma zamanı,"
that such insights were relative.
olduğunu düşünüyordum.
and so age more slowly.
yaşıyor ve daha yavaş yaşlanıyoruz.
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
tasvir etmek için
used it to describe himself at 36.
kendini tanımlamak için kullanmasından
can swing wildly and unpredictably
hiç beklenmedik şekilde
the same age differently.
yaşayabileceğini de.
as the reflection in the mirror,
aynaya yansır gibi
and less sure of who one is;"
olduğunu 20 yaşında keşfetmek,
of preparation into active life;"
beyhudeliğinden" 30 yaşında çıkmak,
the doors to rooms
hafifçe kapatmayı"
visualizations you see here,
muhteşem grafiker--
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
diyordu Nabokov--
what we've experienced.
hatırlamaya yardım eder.
the list with my grandfather,
büyükbabamla paylaştığımda,
we are sure we will not die,
emin olduğumuz konusunda
named Edwin Shneidman was right
bir tanatolojistin
haklı olduğunu söyledi.
ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Joshua Prager - JournalistJoshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own.
Why you should listen
Joshua Prager writes for publications including Vanity Fair, The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, where he was a senior writer for eight years. George Will has described his work as "exemplary journalistic sleuthing."
His new book, 100 Years, is a list of literary quotations on every age from birth to one hundred. Designed by Milton Glaser, the legendary graphic designer who created the I ♥ NY logo, the book moves year by year through the words of our most beloved authors, revealing the great sequence of life.
His first book, The Echoing Green, was a Washington Post Best Book of the Year. The New York Times Book Review called it “a revelation and a page turner, a group character study unequaled in baseball writing since Roger Kahn’s Boys of Summer some three decades ago.”
His second book, Half-Life, describes his recovery from a bus crash that broke his neck. Dr. Jerome Groopman, staff writer at the New Yorker magazine, called it “an extraordinary memoir, told with nuance and brimming with wisdom.
Joshua was a Nieman fellow at Harvard in 2011 and a Fulbright Distinguished Chair at Hebrew University in 2012. He was born in Eagle Butte, South Dakota, grew up in New Jersey, and lives in New York. He is writing a book about Roe v. Wade.
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