Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide Audiobook (Free)

Vanity Good columnist Michael Kinsley escorts his fellow Boomers through the door marked ‘Leave.’

The notorious baby boomers-the most significant age cohort in history-are approaching the end and needs to plan their final movements in the game of lifestyle. Now they are asking: What was that all about? Was it about acquiring items or changing the globe? Was it about keeping all of your marbles? Or may be the only thing that matters after you’re eliminated the reputation you leave behind?

In this group of about Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide essays, Michael Kinsley uses his own struggle with Parkinson’s disease to unearth answers to concerns we all have been sometime forced to confront. “Occasionally,” he writes, “I feel like a scout from my era, sent out ahead to experience in my fifties what actually the healthiest Boomers are going to experience in their sixties, seventies, or eighties.”

This surprisingly cheerful book is at once a fresh assessment of the generation and a frequently funny account of 1 man’s journey toward the final line. “The least misfortune can perform to make up for itself is usually to be interesting,” he creates. “Parkinson’s disease provides fulfilled that responsibility.”