Lowell Handler | The New York Review of Books

Lowell Handler

Lowell Handler is the author of the memoir Twitch and Shout. His photographs have appeared in Life, Newsweek, The New York Review of Books, The New York Times, and other publications. Handler appears in Oliver Sacks’s posthumous book Everything in its Place (2019), in the chapter “Travels with Lowell,” which chronicles Handler and Sacks’s trips together throughout the US, Canada, and Europe. He will be featured in Ric Burns’s forthcoming PBS documentary film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, April 2021. (July 2019)

My Travels with Oliver Sacks

As we got to know each other well, I learned that Oliver was writing about me in his notebooks, while at the same time I was busy photographing him, linking us in a bond of mutual observation and reflection. Our relationship became complicated.

August 1, 2019