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My Last Eight Thousand Days

An American Male in His Seventies

by Lee Gutkind
Johnny Heller
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As founding editor of Creative Nonfiction and architect of the genre, Lee Gutkind played a crucial role in establishing literary, narrative nonfiction in the marketplace and in the academy. A longstanding advocate of New Journalism, he has reported on a wide range of issues—robots and artificial intelligence, mental illness, organ transplants, veterinarians and animals, baseball, motorcycle enthusiasts—and explored them all with his unique voice and approach.
In My Last Eight Thousand Days, Gutkind turns his notepad and tape recorder inward, using his skills as an immersion journalist to perform a deep dive on himself. Here, he offers a memoir of his life as a journalist, editor, husband, father, and Pittsburgh native, not only recounting his many triumphs, but also exposing his missteps and challenges. The overarching concern that frames these brave, often confessional stories, is his obsession and fascination with aging: how aging provoked anxieties and unearthed long-rooted tensions, and how he came to accept, even enjoy, his mental and physical decline. Gutkind documents the realities of aging with the characteristically blunt, melancholic wit and authenticity that drive the quiet force of all his work.

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  • Release date

    January 5, 2021

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      • ISBN: 9781705265239
      • File size: 207173 KB
      • Duration: 07:11:36

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Gutkind made his name writing creative nonfiction, an offshoot of new journalism. After a lifetime of telling other people's stories, MY LAST EIGHT THOUSAND DAYS is Gutkind's look inward. Narrator Johnny Heller is the perfect voice for sharing Gutkind's honest reflections--from successes to failures--both professional and personal. Gutkind explores what it means to be nearing the end of a long life and the struggle it took him to accept what aging does to us all physically and mentally. Heller embodies Gutkind's raw emotions-- sometimes anger at the ravages of time and at other times an almost joyful awe in accepting where he is in life. This is an engaging listen about looking back at life and accepting oneself. J.P.S. © AudioFile 2021, Portland, Maine

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