Joshua Prager: Wisdom from great writers on every year of life
约书亚·普拉格: 生命中的每一年的智慧
Joshua Prager’s journalism unravels historical secrets -- and his own. Full bio
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is going to be a very good year,
particular in store for me,
and sentiment to be a man,
组成的坚实的化身,
wasn't writing about me.
能感受到他其实就在写我;
the subject of his book,
还有他书中的主人公,
along the same great sequence:
恒定的生命规律中了:
and confinements of childhood;
and frustrations of adolescence;
and millstones of adulthood;
and resignations of old age.
"It will happen to me as to them."
“我将经历别人所经历的一切。“
where they become narratives
if it passes into anything."
它能变成一本书。”
a thought leapt to mind:
一个想法从我脑中闪过:
there were, somewhere,
那么在某处,一定有
assemble them into a narrative.
我就可以把它们串成一段故事。
wrote William Trevor.
这是“一个小心翼翼的年纪”。
and later an injury to me
后来也对我有所伤害。
could not be assumed.
能平平安安活到老的。
only postponed the inevitable,
推迟了不可避免的死亡的事实,
what circumstance did not.
year by vulnerable year
what was fleeting,
a glimpse into the future,
可以窥一眼未来,
I was quickly obsessed,
我就已经被迷住了,
for ages and ages.
through our first hundred years.
我们回看每年的步伐。
of sudden revelations,"
是一个充满著豁然开朗的年龄。”
是一个逐渐光华不再的年龄。”
that such insights were relative.
这种对岁月的见解是相对的。
and so age more slowly.
所以我们衰老得慢。
the phrase "the yellow leaf"
用“落叶”
used it to describe himself at 36.
形容当时36岁的自己。
can swing wildly and unpredictably
有时命运多舛的人一年之间
the same age differently.
都有不同的经历。
当这张时间表完成的时候,
as the reflection in the mirror,
and less sure of who one is;"
总是看不清自己”;
of preparation into active life;"
荒芜闯出精彩纷呈“;
the doors to rooms
visualizations you see here,
and an apotheosis," wrote Nabokov --
纳博科夫写到。
what we've experienced.
the list with my grandfather,
拿给我祖父看时
离大去之时不远了。
we are sure we will not die,
22岁的我们坚信我们不会死,
named Edwin Shneidman was right
埃德温父施耐德曼说的,
我们都清楚我们将要离去。
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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