A structure or system or set of routines helps, but it doesn’t have to feel like work; it can be fun, improvisational, a different form of mindfulness, an alternative to your phone. Cues to memory are everywhere, and they’re pleasingly random: if the Pavement song “Shady Lane” comes on the radio, you might remember when you heard it for the first t... See more

“I’ve developed a method, which is being in the present, sitting here, drinking some coffee, thinking of a memory,” he told me, after the final volume was published in English. “I would just start writing, and then I remember something, and then I write about that, and then I remember something else.”