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SUMMARY:Lawrence Weschler
DESCRIPTION:Lawrence Weschler\n\n\n\n\npresents And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks\, the untold story of the famous neurologist\, his own most singular patient. \n“The story of Lawrence Weschler’s faithful four-decade friendship with the amazing Oliver Sacks offers pleasures and amazements on every page. This loving but unblinking portrait will delight fans of Dr. Sacks as well as devotees of Weschler’s always-pathfinding nonfiction.”–Ian Frazier \nTo reserve your seat in advance please purchase a copy of And How Are You\, Dr. Sacks? by speaking with a bookseller or clicking on the cover image below. \n\n\n\n\n\nWednesday\, October 23\, 2019 – 7:30pm\n\n\n\n\n\nLawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s\, when he set out to profile the neurologist for The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier\, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings–the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward. But the book had hardly been an immediate success\, and the rumpled clinician was still largely unknown. Over the ensuing four years\, the two men worked closely together until\, for wracking personal reasons\, Sacks asked Weschler to abandon the profile\, a request to which Weschler acceded. The two remained close friends\, however\, across the next thirty years and then\, just as Sacks was dying\, he urged Weschler to take up the project once again. This book is the result of that entreaty. \nWeschler sets 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 form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific establishment that failed to address his greatest concern: the spontaneous specificity of the individual human soul. And all the while he is pouring out a stream of glorious\, ribald\, hilarious\, and often profound conversation that establishes him as one of the great talkers of the age. Here is the definitive portrait of Sacks as our preeminent romantic scientist\, a self-described “clinical ontologist” whose entire practice revolved around the single fundamental question he effectively asked each of his patients: How are you? Which is to say\, How do you be? \nA question which Weschler\, with this book\, turns back on the good doctor himself. \nLawrence 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 and the author of nearly twenty books\, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees\, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder\, Everything That Rises\, and Vermeer in Bosnia. \n\n\n\n\nEvent address:\n\n\n\n2904 College Avenue\n\nBerkeley\, CA 94705
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