Book · 2022 · Grief
Lost & Found
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Lost & Found by Kathryn Schulz is a reflective and deeply philosophical memoir-essay that explores the universal human experiences of losing physical objects, cherished relationships, and profound grief, while discovering what those losses reveal about our lives. Host Gilbert Cruz explored the genesis of the book on The Book Review, noting that the project expanded outward from a widely read 2017 essay published in The New Yorker about the curious human habit of misplacing things. Cruz and the author discussed how the initial piece on losing objects gradually evolved into a much broader, poignant exploration of emotional loss and discovery. Furthermore, on an episode of The Daily Stoic, Kathryn Schulz appeared as a guest to discuss the thematic resonance of her new work, sharing the deliberate choice behind her book's title. She emphasized that the title encapsulates the surprising moments when humanity discovers what was previously missing or unrecognized within their emotional landscapes. These podcast discussions illuminate how Schulz transformed a seemingly mundane personal observation into a profound meditation on sorrow, resilience, and the quiet epiphanies that emerge in the aftermath of life's inevitable losses.
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Gilbert Cruz okay with this book it started also with an essay and that essay was about losing things talk about that th… 1
“okay with this book it started also with an essay and that essay was about losing things talk about that this book grew out of a piece I wrote in 2017 for the New Yorker”
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“The book is called Lost and Found and the whole first part uh Lost uh is very explicitly about grief and and to be honest it then kind of runs continuously as a as a theme through the rest of it in various ways”
“I um it's incredible uh what we discover uh sometimes without even knowing it was missing from our lives.”
“There's a reason I titled my new book 'Lost and Found' —sometimes we discover what was missing from our lives.”
“Katherine Schultz will join us to talk about her Memoir lost and found”
“her new book is called Lost and Found”
“Katherine Schultz's new book is called Lost and Found”