A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces.
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Indeed, the eight essays collected in A Wanderer in the Perfect City do soar into the realm of passion as Weschler profiles people who “were just moseying down the street one day, minding their own business, when suddenly and almost spontaneously, they caught fire, they became obsessed, they became intensely focused and intensely alive.”.
This is, in part, a collection of such launchings.”Indeed, the eight essays collected in A Wanderer in the Perfect City do soar into the realm of passion as Weschler profiles people who “were just moseying down the street one day, minding their own business, when suddenly and almost spontaneously, they caught fire, they became obsessed.
About Lawrence Weschler. Lawrence Weschler is the author of eleven books of nonfiction, including A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers, Boggs: A Comedy of Values, A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces, Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas, and the highly popular Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonders, which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize.
There is something both marvelous and hilarious, writes Lawrence Weschler, in watching the humdrum suddenly take flight. This is, in part, a collection of such launchings. Indeed, the eight essays collected in A Wanderer in the Perfect City do soar into the realm of passion as Weschler profiles people who were just moseying down the street one.
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A WANDERER IN THE PERFECT CITY. By Lawrence Weschle r. August 2, 1993. Save this story for later. Save this story for later. The New Yorker.
Lawrence Weschler began spending time with Oliver Sacks in the early 1980s, when he set out to profile the neurologist for his own new employer, The New Yorker. Almost a decade earlier, Dr. Sacks had published his masterpiece Awakenings—the account of his long-dormant patients’ miraculous but troubling return to life in a Bronx hospital ward.
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LAWRENCE WESCHLER (born 1952, Van Nuys, California), a graduate of Cowell College of the University of California at Santa Cruz (1974), was for over twenty years (1981-2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies.
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