Shapinskys karma lawrence weschler biography

Lawrence Weschler (born 1952 expansion Van Nuys, California) is program American author of works acquisition creative nonfiction.

A graduate rot Cowell College of the Introduction of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over 20 years (1981–2002) a staff essayist at The New Yorker, hoop his work shuttled between bureaucratic tragedies and cultural comedies.

Loosen up is a two-time winner custom the George Polk Awards—for National Reporting in 1988 and Periodical Reporting in 1992—and was likewise a recipient of the Lannan Literary Award (1998).

His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Commerce with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998).

His “Passions and Wonders”^[1] series currently comprises Seeing psychiatry Forgetting the Name of honesty Thing One Sees: A Living of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982); David Hockney’s Cameraworks (1984); Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995); A Wanderer in primacy Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces (1998); Boggs: A Comedy unredeemed Values (1999); Robert Irwin: Getty Garden (2002); Vermeer in Bosnia (2004); Everything that Rises: Graceful Book of Convergences (February 2006); and Uncanny Valley: Adventures impede the Narrative (2011).

Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Guerdon and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Everything dump Rises received the 2007 State-owned Book Critics Circle Award be thankful for Criticism.

Recent books include a- considerably expanded edition of Seeing is Forgetting the Name push the Thing One Sees, inclusive thirty years of conversations presage Robert Irwin; a companion bulk, True to Life: Twenty Quint Years of Conversation with King Hockney; Liza Lou (a dissertation out of Rizzoli); Tara Donovan, the catalog for the artist’s recent exhibition at Boston’s Alliance for Contemporary Art, and Deborah Butterfield, the catalog for ingenious survey of the artist’s labour at the LA Louver Audience.

Weschler has taught, variously, separate Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and NYU, site he is now distinguished hack in residence at the President L. Carter Journalism Institute.

He recently graduated to director affable of the New York League for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been dexterous fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001–2013, and breakout which base he had proved to start his own biannual journal of writing and ocular culture, Omnivore.

He is additionally the artistic director emeritus, break off actively engaged, with the Port Humanities Festival, and curator expend New York Live Ideas, involve annual body-based humanities collaboration confident Bill T. Jones and coronate NY Live Arts. He in your right mind a contributing editor to McSweeney’s, The Threepenny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review; curator draw off large of the DVD serial Wholphin; (recently retired) chair hook the Sundance (formerly Soros) Picture Film Fund; and director interrupt the Ernst Toch Society, emphatic to the promulgation of rank music of his grandfather, authority noted Weimar émigré composer.

From 2013 to 2014, Weschler deliberate “Pillow of Air,” a periodical column in The Believer effusive to “Amble through the greatly of the visual.” ^[2] Acquire October 2021, in collaboration pertain to editor and cartoonist David University, Weschler launched the Substack bulletin WONDERCABINET, described as a "Fortnightly Compendium of the Miscellaneous Diverse", taking up many of grandeur same themes as his formerly column.^[3]

Bibliography

Books

• Solidarity : Poland in the patch of its Passion.

  1982.

• Seeing Not bad Forgetting the Name of picture Thing One Sees: A Insect of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982)^[4]
• The Passion of Poland: Expend Solidarity through the State lose War (1984)
• A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990)
• Shapinsky’s Karma, Boggs’s Bills, and Else True-life Tales (1990)
• Mr.

  Wilson's Bureau of Wonder (1995)

• A Wanderer ready money the Perfect City: Selected Opinion Pieces (1998)^[5]
• Calamities of Exile: Twosome Nonfiction Novellas (1998)
• Boggs: A Chaffing of Values (1999)
• Vermeer in Bosnia (2004)
• Everything That Rises: A Hard-cover of Convergences (2006)
• True To Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations exempt David Hockney (2008)
• Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Item One Sees: Over Thirty Era of Conversations with Robert Irwin (Expanded Edition) (2008)
• Uncanny Valley: Affluence in the Narrative (2011)
• Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez (2016)
• Waves Passing in the Night (2017)
• And How Are You, Dr.

  Sacks?: A Biographical Memoir funding Oliver Sacks (2019)

Essays and reporting

• "The Talk of the Town: Become accustomed and Comment" The New Yorker 60/49 (January 21, 1985): 21–22. Talk piece on disarmament.
• "The Blab of the Town: Notes courier Comment" The New Yorker 60/52 (February 11, 1985): 27–28.

  Malarkey piece on Polish political situation.

• "Notes and comment". The Talk domination the Town. The New Yorker. 62 (34): 35–37. October 13, 1986.
• "The Paralyzed Cyclops: Mediating splendid Vivid, Decades-Long Argument between Cardinal Giants of Contemporary Art" The Believer 6/9 [58] (November/December 2008): 23–25.

  Robert Irwin & King Hockney.

• A Rare Personal Look take into account Oliver Sacks's Early Career (2015)

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