News & Events
News & Events
Contribute to an Oliver Sacks Biography!
Dear readers, Happy July 9th (the 86th anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s birth)! We are very excited to announce that Laura J. Snyder has begun working on the definitive biography of Oliver [...]
Parkinson’s Awareness Month and More
Did you know that Oliver Sacks once bought a house during a swim around New York's City Island? He lived there for over twenty years. In his upcoming essay [...]
A New Oliver Sacks Book and Photos From the Archive
Everything in Its Place, the final collection of essays by Oliver Sacks, will be available on April 23, 2019. Publishers Weekly calls it "a treat for the chronically curious." They write: [...]
A new Oliver Sacks book is on the way!
We are proud to announce a final collection of essays--many never before published, coming your way on April 23, 2019! Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales, [...]
Celebrating Oliver Sacks’s Birthday
Oliver loved to celebrate his birthday, July 9. He would start the day with a swim, and then we would round up the usual suspects and throw a party with [...]
The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks — a film in progress
Oliver Sacks’s animated mind is becoming an animated film, and we hope you will be a part of it! Dempsey Rice, the filmmaker who brought us so many fascinating interviews [...]
Creativity Depends on Openness to Change
How we wish Dr. Sacks were still alive to see the glorious reviews for his new book, The River of Consciousness. In this week’s New York Times Book Review, Nicole Krauss writes: “In [...]
A New Oliver Sacks Book! and two live events
Two weeks before his death in August 2015, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee in detail, and charged three of [...]
Remembering Bob Silvers
Last week we lost the legendary, irreplaceable Robert B. Silvers at the age of 87. In a 2010 interview with New York Magazine, Oliver Sacks was asked, “Who is your [...]
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