Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction. 1952 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Creative nonfiction is a genre of literature, also known as literary journalism and narrative journalism, which uses literary skills in the writing of nonfiction. ...
A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California at Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Awards (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). 1981 is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2002 is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The George Polk Awards is an American journalism award. ...
Since 2001, Weschler has been the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. New York University (NYU) is a large research university in New York City. ...
Weschler is the grandson of the composer Ernst Toch. Ernst Toch (pronounced similar to talk) (7 December 1887 - 1 October 1964) was a composer of classical music and film scores. ...
Bibliography
Solidarity, Poland in the season of its passion (1982)
Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees : a life of contemporary artist Robert Irwin (1982)
The passion of Poland, from Solidarity through the state of war (1984)
A miracle, a universe : settling accounts with torturers (1990)
Shapinsky’s karma, Boggs’s bills, and other true-life tales (1990)
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Weschler is an impossibly wide-ranging writer, and his subjects (Polanski aside) are far from typical.
Weschler writes from an ''I'' so sparkly that even a piece about his adored daughter escapes the traps of ego.
In these essays, Weschler continues to push the boundaries, finding connections where we least expect them, and reporting back to us on a society that is at once profound and vicious, wondrous and frightful.
Weschler describes the process by which a virus evolves resistant strains as a kind of wool-gathering: "Being is itself thinking: the world is daydreaming." Maybe there is not, then, a great difference between the matter that thinks, and our thoughts about that matter; all is thought, and everything, potentially, matters.
LawrenceWeschler, a former contributor to the New Yorker and the author of nearly a dozen books on subjects ranging from painting to political exile, recently was appointed the first "artistic director" of the annual Chicago Humanities Festival.
Weschler has said that he wants to incorporate the sciences into upcoming Humanities Festivals here, and you get a hint of what his approach might be in the book's intriguing final pieces, which delve into the related structures of trees, the brain, the cell and the universe at large.
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