The phrase "art of remembering" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing techniques, skills, or practices related to memory and recall.
Example: "The art of remembering is essential for students who wish to excel in their studies."
Alternatives: "skill of memory" or "craft of recollection".
A downed World War II plane, a small town and the art of remembering.
You have to give what's happening on the screen your undivided attention and cultivate the art of remembering it.
It even bothered Plato, who argued that the technology of writing would destroy the art of remembering.
POETIC MEMORY -- Plays by Adina L. Ruskin will be read Saturday, excerpts from "The Art of Remembering" and a reading of her work "Oigo"; noon, Miranda Theater, 259 West 30th Street (near Eighth Avenue); free; (914) 478-7224.
To get your class thinking about the best way to deliver a compelling tale, try this lesson on the art of remembering a poem by heart from the Poetry Society.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m., "The Art of Remembering: From Battery Park City to the Battery," a tour of some of the memorials in Lower Manhattan, including the Irish Hunger Memorial, the Columbus Monument and the Richard Morris Hunt Memorial, meeting at the Maine Monument on the north side of 59th Street, south of Central Park West.
MOONWALKING WITH EINSTEIN: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything, by Joshua Foer (Penguin, $16).
Joshua Foer is the author of "Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything," from which this article is adapted, to be published by Penguin Press next month.
Alexandra Horowitz's review of Joshua Foer's "Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything" (March 13) reminded me that in the 1930s I came across a copy of "Roth Memory Course," which had been my mother's two decades earlier.
The science journalist Joshua Foer, author of "Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything," said in a lecture to the Royal Society of Arts that people once "invested in their memories, they cultivated them.
Joshua Foer's book "Moonwalking With Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything" — just published and already No. 3 on the Amazon.com best-seller list — is both fun and reassuring.
