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Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler is the Director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. Earlier this year he published True to Life: Twenty-five Years of Conversations with David Hockney and an expanded edition of Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversationswith Robert Irwin. (October 2009)

Life and Death of a Hero

The Man Who Tried to Save the World: The Dangerous Life and Mysterious Disappearanceof Fred Cuny

by Scott Anderson

December 2, 1999 issue

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