“Sixty-five is the New Sixty-four!”

Recently I was listening to satellite radio while on the road, and caught a Fresh Air interview with Robert Price, celebrated author of hardscrabble crime fiction, including Clockers (2008)and his most recent novel The Whites (2015).  Is it my imagination, or are “older adults” appearing more and more often in mainstream fiction and movies?  Apparently a central character in The Whites is just such an “senior.”  In Price’s interview, I was struck by the humor of his observations about how growing older himself has influenced his writing, but also about much his grandparents’ lives affected his fiction.  And I couldn’t help but laugh when he observed that no one likes the “math” as you get older, although he is now the first to admit that “65 is the new 64.”  Here’s a link to the 44 minute podcast with Terry Gross.