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Lawrence Weschler sets Oliver Sacks's brilliant table talk and extravagant personality in vivid relief, casting himself as a beanpole Sancho to Sacks's capacious Quixote. We see Sacks rowing and ranting and caring deeply; composing the essays that would form The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat; recalling his turbulent drug-fueled younger days; helping his patients and exhausting his friends; and waging intellectual war against a medical and scientific...
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Award-winning author Lawrence Weschler's book on the young Mexican American artist Ramiro Gomez explores questions of social equity and the chasms between cultures and classes in America. Gomez, born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California, to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents, bridges the divide between the affluent wealthy and their usually invisible domestic help--the nannies, gardeners, housecleaners, and others who make their lifestyles possible--by...
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Un artefacto literario sorprendente que celebra la tradición de lo maravilloso en nuestra cultura.
Hormigas hediondas de cuyo cerebro sale un hongo mortal, humanos cornudos, tostadas de ratón... Estas son algunas de las cosas que pueden encontrarse expuestas en el Museo de Tecnología Jurásica de David Wilson, un lugar escondido en el West Side de Los Ángeles que nos pone en contacto con nuestro innato sentido de la maravilla haciendo que nos...
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Counterpoint
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c2011
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English
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"Shuttling between cultural comedies and political tragedies, Lawrence Weschler's articles have been captivating readers ever since his days at The New Yorker. With Uncanny Valley, he furthers that vivid trajectory, collecting the best of his narrative nonfiction from the past fifteen years."--P. [2] of jacket.