Sixty: A Diary: My Year of Aging Semi-Gracefully

"This is the thing, you see: I am on my way to being an old man. But at sixty, I am still the youngest of old men."

As acclaimed journalist and author Ian Brown's sixtieth birthday loomed, every moment seemed to present a choice: Confront, or deny, the biological fact that the end was now closer than the beginning. Brown chose instead to notice every moment-to try to capture precisely what he was experiencing, without panicking. Sixty is the result: an uncensored, seriocomic report, a slalo...