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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Giving the Gift of Music
This week, something extraordinary happened. Director Michael Rossato-Bennett posted a clip from his new documentary, “Alive Inside,” on YouTube. Over the next couple of hours, he watched the number of…
Ferns, chocolate, and capybaras
Spring is on the way, and it’s time to take a journey to the lovely warm climes of Oaxaca, Mexico! (We pronounce it “Wah-HAH-ka.”) Dr. Sacks’s Oaxaca Journal has just…
Dragons and Doctors
Happy Year of the Dragon! It seems like an auspicious time to announce that Dr. Sacks’s next book, HALLUCINATIONS, is scheduled for publication in the fall of 2012. Stay tuned…
Thanks to you
Thanksgiving is here, and we are thankful for your support, your comments, and your emails and letters. In particular, as Dr. Sacks finishes up the manuscript for his book on…
The Mind’s Eye in paperback!
Dr. Sacks’s newest book, The Mind’s Eye, debuted in paperback this month. Tell us what you think of the new cover . . . and the striking new set of…
Now on DVD: The Music Never Stopped
In addition to the e-books and audiobooks mentioned in our last newsletter, we thought you’d like to know that The Music Never Stopped, the inspiring movie based on a chapter from An Anthropologist on…
The Sex Life of Horsetails
Have you ever smelled, seen, heard or felt something that isn’t there? Dr. Sacks is working on a new book about (mostly) non-psychotic hallucinations—those associated with delirium, migraine, blindness, intoxication,…
Tourettesville
This month is Tourette Syndrome Awareness Month in New York State. The syndrome, characterized by involuntary body movements or vocalizations, was first described in 1885 by the French neurologist Georges…
New Videos on YouTube!
Spring greetings! We have posted some new videos on Dr. Sacks’s YouTube channel, in which he reacts to the new film based on his work, “The Music Never Stopped.” (If you have…
The Last Hippie and the Grateful Dead
Dr. Sacks’s essay “The Last Hippie” is the basis for the new feature film, The Music Never Stopped, directed by Jim Kohlberg and starring J. K. Simmons, Lou Taylor Pucci, Cara Seymour and…
Music, Metals, and Learning
The Mind’s Eye is available now in English, German, Dutch, and Portuguese (Brazil), with more translations on the way. Dr. Sacks discusses the book, and many other topics, on his…
Footnote of the Month: January 2011
What are the “minor metals,” so-called? They are metals not traded on the London Metal Exchange, but they nonetheless have a wide range of uses essential to modern life. Some…
Wrapping up 2010
Season’s Greetings from the Sacks office! We hope your holidays are full of peaceful moments, firelight (see Dr. Sacks’s piece about his love of fire), and, of course, music (see his tribute…
Giving Thanks for Great Readers!
The Mind’s Eye is a New York Times Editor’s Choice pick this week. Okay, so Keith Richards’ autobiography is number one, but we’re number two! Thank you, New York Times…
The Mind’s Eye is now available!
October 26, 2010 The Mind’s Eye launches today!** In hardcover, large type, e-book, and audio editions. Check out our new YouTube channel for video clips of Dr. Sacks talking about his…
The Mind’s Eye book tour
It’s only a few more weeks until Dr. Sacks’s new book, The Mind’s Eye, is published in hardcover, large print, audiobook and e-book formats—in the United States, Australia, Brasil, the…
Gotta Dance!
In Musicophilia, Dr. Sacks writes about music and its therapeutic effects for movement disorders like Parkinson’s disease and Tourette’s syndrome. His Awakenings patients (who had an extremely rare and severe form of parkinsonism)…
Footnote of the Month: August 2010
Bravo to the Mark Morris Dance Group for their pioneering program bringing music, and dance, to people with Parkinson’s disease. Dr. Sacks first saw the power of music in his…
Reading, writing and evolution
Reading and writing: do they go together like love and marriage? Well, it turns out the story is complicated. Take Howard Engel, a novelist who wrote to Dr. Sacks a…