Livestream with Lawrence Weschler, Tomorrow, November 6
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Lawrence Weschler
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The article centers on a livestream with Lawrence Weschler, and understanding his extensive body of work as a journalist and author would provide essential context for readers unfamiliar with his contributions to literary nonfiction and cultural criticism.
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Oliver Sacks
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Weschler wrote a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks, and understanding Sacks's groundbreaking work as a neurologist and author who humanized neurological conditions would enrich appreciation of their intellectual friendship and collaboration.
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David Hockney
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Weschler spent twenty-five years in conversation with David Hockney, one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Understanding Hockney's artistic innovations in painting, photography, and digital media provides valuable context for appreciating their long intellectual exchange.
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To be clear, this is the we’re talking about — author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders (1995), Vermeer in Bosnia (2004), True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney (2008), And How Are You, Dr. Sacks? A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks (2019), the supremely enigmatic A Trove of Zohars (2023), etc., etc. Weschler is also author of the wonderful Wondercabinet on Substack, to which you should all subscribe. And incidentally he is a great friend and fellow-traveller of The Hinternet.
We will be discussing, but not limiting ourselves to, sundry questions related to JSR’s recent essay, “The Moon Makes Us Human”. (Lire en français.) Read it, and join us tomorrow well prepared to throw us a question or two.
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