Books written by Lawrence Weschler

Boggs: A Comedy of Values

... Life of Property ( Vintage , 1983 ) ; and , more recently , a volume with particular relevance to the career of our current protagonist , Trickster Makes the World : Mischief , Myth , and Art ( Farrar , Straus & Giroux , 1998 ) .
And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

This is Sacks at full blast: on endless ward rounds, observing his post-encephalitic patients . . . exulting over horseshoe crabs and chunks of Iceland spar." —Barbara Kiser, Nature The author Lawrence Weschler began spending time with ...
Boggs: A Comedy of Values

In this highly entertaining book, Lawrence Weschler chronicles the antics of J. S. G. Boggs, an artist whose consuming passion is money, or perhaps more precisely, value.
Oliver Sacks: Ein persönliches Porträt

Schon 1981, als Sacks noch weitgehend unbekannt war, beschloss der Journalist Lawrence Weschler, die Biographie von Oliver Sacks zu schreiben.
This Land: An Epic Postcard Mural on the Future of a Country in Ecological Peril

David Opdyke's massive collage This Land (as elucidated in this book by award-winning author Lawrence Weschler) presents a slow-burning satire of the American Dream as it blunders into the reality of climate change.
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin

Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space
Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Expanded Edition

"Robert Irwin, perhaps the most influential of the California artists, moved from his beginnings in abstract expressionism through successive shifts in style and sensibility, into a new aesthetic territory altogether, one where ...
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney

Soon after the book's publication in 1982, artist David Hockney read Lawrence Weschler's Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and invited Weschler to his studio to discuss it, ...
David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition

Hockney's own insight into this latest chapter of his career is found across the book's pages and is accompanied by thoughtful commentary by renowned critic Lawrence Weschler and art historian Sarah Howgate.
Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative

Uncanny Valley continues the page–turning conversation as Weschler collects the best of his narrative nonfiction from the past fifteen years.
Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists

From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.
Waves Passing in the Night: Walter Murch in the Land of the Astrophysicists

From Pulitzer Prize nominee Lawrence Weschler, a fascinating profile of Walter Murch, a film legend and amateur astrophysicist whose investigations could reshape our understanding of the universe.
Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences

From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, art historian and journalist Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever...
Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas

“ Tradition isn't something nostalgic , ” Kanan has quoted Mohamed as saying . The quotation appears in Kanan's third book , Post - Islamic Classicism : A Visual Essay on the Architecture of Mohamed Makiya , a coffee - table volume that ...
Robert Irwin Getty Garden: Revised edition

First published in 2002, Robert Irwin Getty Garden is comprised of a series of discussions between noted author Lawrence Weschler and Irwin, providing a lively account of what Irwin has playfully termed “a sculpture in the form of a ...
Mr. Wilson's Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Techno logy

Jay's Journal (J Anomalies: Excerpts from articles by Ricky Jay (Jay's Journal of Anomalies, vol. 1, no. 1, Spring 1994- and vol. '2, no. 1, Spring 1995). Reprinted by permission of Jay': Journal of Anomalies, published by W&V Dailey, ...
Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings

Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns–which is to say, practically everything.
A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers

Now, New Yorker staff reporter Lawrence Weschler tells the extraordinary story of how, against tremendous odds, torture victims and human-rights activists in two Latin American countries—Brazil and Uruguay—tried to bring their torturers ...
The Passion of Poland, from Solidarity Through the State of War

The Passion of Poland, from Solidarity Through the State of War
Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences

From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks.