Journalist Stricken by Alzheimer's Planning Second Book

GregO'BrienOnPlutoOn Thursday, journalist-turned-author Greg O’Brien will speak about his book On Pluto: Inside the Mind of Alzheimer’s. Not at a bookstore, but more appropriately perhaps, at the Alzheimer’s Association New Hampshire/Massachusetts chapter office in Watertown, MA.

O’Brien, who was diagnosed with the debilitating disease five years ago, is incredibly forthright about his condition and fate. From a great piece by WBUR-FM contributor Jim Sullivan:

O’Brien believes he has three or four “good” years left. “I fear the day when I put my fingers on the keyboard and not know what to do,” he says.

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