🎭 Culture Oct 22, 2026 · Bonnie Friedman

It’s All in Your Head

The American Scholar
American Scholar magazine
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Until recently, whenever I read a novel or a play, I largely forgot its contents within a matter of weeks. The words and events would drain through me, leaving me, at best, with isolated remnants. I marveled at people who could describe in detail passages they’d read years before. They seemed to have been bestowed with some freakish gift of the gods.
But one day something changed, and I am now able to recall the structure and even extended sections of a few dozen works of literature, meaning tha

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