Best Of: Amy Bloom On Alzheimer's And Assisted Suicide / Cartoonist David Sipress
March 12, 2022 02:15
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Shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2019, architect
Brian Ameche, then in his mid-60s, told his wife, novelist Amy Bloom, that he
wanted to end life on his own terms, before the disease robbed him of
everything. Bloom talks about how she traveled with him to Zurich so he could
legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is In Love.
Cartoonist David Sipress endured years of rejection before finally landing a
gig with The New Yorker in '98. "I wasn't about to let all that rejection
get in the way," he says. His new memoir is What's So Funny?
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Shortly after he was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2019, architect
Brian Ameche, then in his mid-60s, told his wife, novelist Amy Bloom, that he
wanted to end life on his own terms, before the disease robbed him of
everything. Bloom talks about how she traveled with him to Zurich so he could
legally terminate his life. Her new memoir is In Love.
Cartoonist David Sipress endured years of rejection before finally landing a
gig with The New Yorker in '98. "I wasn't about to let all that rejection
get in the way," he says. His new memoir is What's So Funny?
