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Last Minute Gifts from the Oliver Sacks Oeuvre
Happy holidays! We hope you’re all taking time to rest and connect with loved ones. Every holiday season we try to recommend a few Oliver Sacks books that make great gifts for anyone who’s doing last...
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A One-Night-Only East Coast Premiere of Tobias Picker’s “Awakenings”
We are excited to announce that Odyssey Opera, in partnership with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project (BMOP), will present the East Coast premiere of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s Awakenings...
View ArticleDementia: Unexpected Stories of the Mind
Oliver Sacks’s closest friend and schoolmate Jonathan Miller died of dementia in 2019. The photo above shows them together in New York City. In a new five-part series from BBC Sounds, William Miller,...
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“Meeting” Oliver Sacks (And Happy Birthday)
July 9 would have been Oliver Sacks’s 90th birthday, and as readers of Uncle Tungsten might know, element 90 is thorium, named after the Norse god of thunder. Oliver would have been especially pleased,...
View ArticleRemembering Oliver Sacks
Today we remember Oliver Sacks. A naturalist, a writer, a psychonaut, but first and foremost a physician and explorer of the human condition. July 9, 1933 – August 30, 2015. In this clip from a lecture...
View ArticleAwakenings Recording Now Available
The world premiere recording of Tobias Picker and Aryeh Lev Stollman’s opera, Awakenings, is now available to stream on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music. Set in a Bronx hospital in the late 1960s,...
View ArticleA Beautiful Gift Edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
We’re thrilled to share that there’s a gorgeous new edition of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat out from Everyman’s Library. If you follow us on any social media platform you have likely already...
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NBC Orders Medical Drama Based on Life and Work of Oliver Sacks
We are excited to share that NBC has greenlit Dr. Wolf, a medical drama TV series inspired by the life and work of Oliver Sacks, with Star Trek’s Zachary Quinto set to star as the acclaimed neurologist...
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Happy New Year!
We hope you’re all taking time to rest and connect with loved ones. The end of a year can be a time for reflection and gratitude, and we recently found a poignant inspiration for both in this Patti...
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An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks
Photo by Rosalie Winard Q&A with Susan R. Barry, author of Dear Oliver: An Unexpected Friendship with Oliver Sacks. Susan R. Barry is professor emerita of biological sciences and of neuroscience...
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A first look at photos of Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf in Brilliant Minds
We are thrilled to share a first look at photos of Zachary Quinto as Dr. Oliver Wolf in NBC’s new medical drama Brilliant Minds. Inspired by case histories in The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and...
View ArticleHappy birthday, Oliver
Today would have been Oliver Sacks’s 91st birthday, and we want to celebrate by sharing the cover of his forthcoming book with you. This charming, never-before-seen photo of Oliver was taken in 1997...
View ArticleBrilliant Minds: A New TV Show Based on Oliver Sacks
Hello, and happy September! If you were watching the Olympics a few weeks ago, you may have seen ads for the new television series inspired by Oliver Sacks’s work, coming to NBC on September 23. We are...
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The Oliver Sacks archive heads to the New York Public Library
We are thrilled to share the news that the New York Public Library has acquired the Oliver Sacks archive, including a vast array of annotated manuscripts, books, letters, photographs, and memorabilia...
View ArticleThe Letters of Oliver Sacks: A Reading and Conversation
Please join us to celebrate the publication of Letters, the new collection of Oliver Sacks’s correspondence! November 7, 2024, at 8 pm at 92Y in NYC (and online), with Zachary Quinto, Kay Redfield...
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