Spencer Bailey + Andrew Zuckerman & Elisa Gabbert , At a Distance

Elisa Gabbert on Why Our Memory Fails Us

03 Nov 2020 • 41 min • EN

Poet and essayist Elisa Gabbert, author of the new book “The Unreality of Memory: And Other Essays,” talks with us about why the 24-hour news cycle fuels a demand for disasters, how false memories are created, and the emotional difficulty of responding to big, invisible threats like the climate crisis.

From "At a Distance"