Reeve Lindbergh recently reviewed Lastingness: the Art of Old Age for The Washington Post. From the review: Nicholas Delbanco’s new book examines creative achievement in old age, though the author acknowledges that our culture concerns itself primarily with the young. We seem, nonetheless, ambivalent about age, expecting our leaders to evince a certain maturity. Delbanco, […]
Lastingness was featured in a recent article for the San Francisco Chronicle titled “Books About Art and Aging.” The article, written by Jane Juska, starts: “Life, as we find it, is too hard for us,” writes Freud in “Civilization and Its Discontents.” “Palliative measures” are required. One such measure is a receptivity to art. (Another […]
Why do some artists seem to fade away while others last forever? Beth Kephart raises this question in her recent review of “Lastingness” for the Chicago Tribune. From the review: Six years ago, during one of my summer writers’ workshops, I found myself presented with a young man who was already (at the ripe age […]
The Los Angeles Times recently sat down with Delbanco to discuss his latest work, Lastingness: the Art of Old Age and the link between creativity and longevity. From the article by Scott Martelle: Nicholas Delbanco sits on a swivel chair in his second-floor writer’s study, his back to the desk, knees bent slightly as he […]
“Lucid, perceptive, and broad-ranging, LASTINGNESS speaks to the greatest anxiety of the creative with wisdom-infused passion. This is a work to take gratefully to heart.” —Gish Jen, author of World and Town “From where else but the panoramic cultural erudition of Nicholas Delbanco could such a tour-de-force of artistic sensitivity have come? This book is […]
Lastingness: The Art of Old Age Nicholas Delbanco, Grand Central, $24.99 (288 p) ISBN 978-0-446-19964-3 Why do so many creative minds become more productive and flourish with age? Delbanco (The Beaux Arts Trio), one of America’s most influential literary writers and critics, tackles this question, brushing aside the national obsession with youth to measure mature […]
