Memory is Fiction
For a recent live event at The Greene Space in New York, Studio 360 teamed up with The Story Collider to present a night of true stories about memory and the brain.
Or “true-ish,” as Kurt Andersen says – as we all know (and science confirms), the act of remembering is not only subjective, but extremely flawed. The narrator of Kurt’s novel True Believers grapples with this as she tries to recall her radical late 60’s youth. “In other words,” Kurt says, “my fictional character realizes that her memories and all of our memories are somewhat … fictionalized.”
Kurt’s cohosts for the night, Ben Lillie and Erin Barker, share their own imperfectly remembered stories – one about a run-in with a nail gun, the other about an unusual ketchup recipe – memories that they later learned were almost completely fabricated.
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