Lawrence Weschler
Artist Description
Lawrence Weschler's reading will be drawn from his books about two visual artists -- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin and True To Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney. Currently director of New York University's Institute for the Humanities and artistic director for the Chicago Humanities Festival, he was a staff writer at The New Yorker for over twenty years where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He received a Lannan Literary Award in 1998, is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award in Journalism, received a National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism in 2006, and was finalist for both the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction.
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