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Oct
10
2019

Former NYer magazine writer Lawrence Weschler talks about his latest book, a biography of his friend, the late neurologist and writer, Dr. Oliver Sacks (portrayed by Robin Williams in the movie “Awakenings”.)
View moreFor over twenty years (1981-2002), Mr. Weschler was a staff writer at The New Yorker magazine, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. Among his twenty-some-odd books, those on politics include The Passion of Poland (1984) and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990). His books on cultural figures include Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995, which was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award); Boggs: A Comedy of Values (1999) and Twenty Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney.He is also a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural and Magazine Reporting). Weschler has taught at Princeton, Columbia, UC Santa Cruz, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence and Brown universities. He is director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and also the artistic director emeritus with the Chicago Humanities Festival.Once,
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Eagle Harbor Bookstore
157 Winslow Way, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110