News & Events
News & Events
Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts announce Oliver Sacks festival
Today, New York Live Arts announces their first annual festival of arts and ideas in New York City, a series called Live Ideas. The inaugural festival, from April 17-21, 2013, is [...]
Happy 50th, New York Review of Books!
Happy anniversary to our great friends at the New York Review of Books, who are celebrating 50 years of publishing wide-ranging, thought-provoking essays and criticism, ranging from art and politics to [...]
Happy Holidays!
12/12/12 Dear Readers, Thanks to you, Hallucinations is a New York Times bestseller! Coming up this week: Dr. Sacks discusses his take on Eben Alexander’s book Proof of Heaven, online [...]
Hallucinations now available as book, e-book, and audiobook!
What an exciting week! Hallucinations is now on sale (as a book, e-book, and audiobook) in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Over the next few weeks, you will likely hear [...]
Hot off the press! Hallucinations, phantoms, and more
We here in the Sacks office are eagerly awaiting publication of Dr. Sacks’s new book,Hallucinations. The very first copy reached his hands today! In the US and Canada, as well [...]
What I Learned from Hallucinogens
This week’s New Yorker (issue dated August 27) features an excerpt from Dr. Sacks’s new book, Hallucinations. At newyorker.com, Dr. Sacks talks about his psychedelic days in an audio interview. [...]
Björk, Musicophilia, and Face Blindness
A sneak preview of Hallucinations will run in the New Yorker’s issue dated August 27th, on stands August 20, 2012 (barring last-minute scheduling changes by the magazine). The book itself will be published [...]
Linnaeus and (Out of) Body Experiences
Hallucinations has gone off to the printers, and will be published on November 6! Here’s what the jacket looks like, thanks to designer Hailey Wojcik: Dr. Sacks just [...]
The Man Who Forgot How to Read
This coming weekend, a documentary film inspired by Dr. Sacks’s latest book, The Mind’s Eye, will be broadcast on BBC World News. “The Man Who Forgot How to Read” explores face blindness, stereo [...]
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