memory

My executive function, the set of mental processes that help order the day-to-day — like organization, working memory, time management and focus — was in shambles.

The two authors shared an agent and it was decided offering an award for unpublished writing was the best way to honour her memory.

From chapter to chapter, Lockwood deploys an associative strategy: anecdotes, memories and social commentary string together, rich and kinetic if confusing.

Nearby, a gorgeous photograph of a single gnarled tree amid green rolling hills becomes quietly apocalyptic, as if the voluptuous earth is preparing to shake off morbid memories.

“This recovery cannot be credibly compared to any other wildfire cleanup in recent memory,” said Andrew Whelton, an engineering professor at Purdue University who studies natural disaster recovery.