Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies, and then the director, now emeritus, of the NY Institute for the Humanities at NYU and concurrently the artistic director, also now emeritus, of the Chicago Humanities Festival.  He continues to write regularly for the likes of Vanity Fair, The Atlantic, the New York Times Magazine, The Nation, McSweeneys and The Believer.  His over twenty books include Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees (on light and space artist Robert Irwin). Mr Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (on LA’s Museum of Jurassic Technology), Vermeer in Bosnia, and more recently, a biographical memoir chronicling his thirty five year friendship with the neurolgist Oliver Sacks, And How are You, Doctor Sacks?