Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler, a longtime veteran of The New Yorker and a regular contributor to The New York Times Magazine, Vanity Fair, McSweeney's, and NPR, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University and the author of nearly 20 books, including Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, a life of the artist Robert Irwin; Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, about the Museum of Jurassic Technology; Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences; A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers; and Vermeer in Bosnia. His newest book, And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?, a biographical memoir of Oliver Sacks, was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux on August 13, 2019.