Lawrence Weschler: And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 5 December 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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And How Are You, Dr. Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir of Oliver Sacks by Lawrence Weschler is a book that can only be itself.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:04.1	Boots!
0:09.1	Where would we be without boos?
0:12.9	Where would we be without good?
0:15.2	No, Timberd.
0:16.7	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we need without books?
0:23.6	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt.
0:28.6	This is Bookworm. Today I have a special guest.
0:33.6	His name, he's been on the show before, is Lawrence Weschler.
0:39.1	He's writing a book about someone else who's been on the show quite a few times.
0:47.2	That's Oliver Sacks.
0:49.4	Oliver was one of my favorite guests, and I had the excitement of learning that he was one of
0:58.1	Lawrence Weschler's closest friends, godfather to Lawrence Weschler's daughter, Sarah?
1:08.5	Yes, of course, you're going to want to read Oliver Sacks' own autobiographical writings,
1:17.3	but you will learn something about friendship and the interaction of two minds that in 30 years never really parted company.
1:32.8	They were talking constantly and at a time when we're forgetting what it's like
1:40.4	to have friends that you don't fight with without making up within 24 hours.
1:48.2	Think of all the people you'd stop being able to talk to, Gore Vidal or Norman Mailer or Susan Sontag.
1:55.6	And there they are, Lawrence Weschler, my guest, and the great neurophysician.
2:03.1	What did he call himself?
2:04.6	He called himself a clinical ontologist.
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