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Speak, Memory

This year, in collaboration with the Stanford Institute for Creativity and the Arts, Continuing Studies offers you three evenings — one each quarter — of dramatic readings, modeled on NPR's popular "Selected Shorts," featuring writings on and about memory. We have borrowed the title of our series from Vladimir Nabokov's luminous memoir, and have recruited accomplished actress Kay Kostopoulos to direct the programs. Each evening will feature three or four selected pieces.

Continuing Studies inaugurates "Speak, Memory" with their Fall program, which includes a classic story by Jorge Luis Borges, "Funes the Memorious," about a man who could not forget anything; Oliver Sacks' account of the pianist Clive Wearing, whose amnesia, brought on by a brain infection, prevented him from remembering anything for more than about four seconds; and an excerpt from Anne Tyler's gently humorous and deeply compassionate new novel, Noah's Compass.

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