Lawrence Weschler, a longtime veteran of the New Yorker and a regular contributor to NPR, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU. He is the author of nearly twenty books, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees and Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder.
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Lawrence Weschler sets Oliver Sacks's brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks's capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would f... SEE MORE