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A New Oliver Sacks Podcast, Available Now

April 15, 2022 / Kate Edgar / News

  Dear Friends, There was something unique and special about Oliver Sacks’ voice, literally as well as literarily. Those of you who were lucky enough to attend one of his…

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A One-Night-Only U.K. and Ireland Screening of the Oliver Sacks Documentary

September 28, 2021 / Kate Edgar / News

Happy Sunday, We know many of our followers in the U.K. and Ireland have been waiting to see the Ric Burns documentary “Oliver Sacks: His Own Life” for a while…

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A classic Oliver Sacks book gets an upgrade.

September 24, 2021 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Readers, Shortly before his death, Oliver Sacks wrote an essay looking back on his seminal 1985 book, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat. We are thrilled…

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The periodic table in Oliver Sacks’ wallet.

May 2, 2021 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Friends, Oliver Sacks was prolific. Besides 16 published books, he also left behind a legacy of brilliant essays, lectures, unpublished drafts, journals, letters, notes, marginalia, audio recordings, film, and…

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Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich, Oliver Sacks documentary on PBS American Masters

April 8, 2021 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Friends, We are delighted to announce that Ric Burns’ documentary Oliver Sacks: His Own Life will be broadcast throughout the United States on PBS’ American Masters, premiering at 9 p.m….

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“We are not given the world: we make our world”

January 13, 2021 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Friends, Happy New Year! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! We are delighted to announce that Ric Burns’ film Oliver Sacks: His Own Life is now available for streaming in the U.S. on iTunes, Amazon, Vudu, and Google…

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Happy holidays from the Oliver Sacks Foundation!

January 5, 2021 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Friends, We wish you a very peaceful, healthy holiday season. Among the other things we have to celebrate at this time of year, this week marks the 30th anniversary…

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“My predominant feeling is one of gratitude”

December 3, 2020 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear friends, Any time we ask you all about your favorite Oliver Sacks quotes, there’s one excerpt that comes up again and again, a section of one of the essays…

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A book, a film, and a voting plan

September 15, 2020 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Readers, Is it autumn so soon? We have so much news to catch up on! First off, we are delighted to announce a new edition of Oliver Sacks’s third…

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A Less Remembered Pandemic

April 17, 2020 / Kate Edgar / News

Dear Readers, We hope you are staying healthy and safe in these extremely difficult times. Reading, as we all are, about the spread of Covid-19 inevitably reminds us of the…

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A Botanical End-of-Year Message From the Sacks Team

December 21, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

Hello friends, Dr. Sacks would be thrilled to know that a newly identified species of fern has been named Ceradenia sacksii, “Sacks’ waxy-gland fern” by botanist Michael Sundue. This is a…

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Watch a Clip From the Oliver Sacks Documentary

September 25, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

We are very excited to announce that Oliver Sacks: His Own Life, a Ric Burns documentary on the life and work of Oliver Sacks,  premiered last week at the Telluride Film…

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Contribute to an Oliver Sacks Biography!

July 9, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

  Dear readers, Happy July 9th (the 86th anniversary of Oliver Sacks’s birth)! We are very excited to announce that Laura J. Snyder has begun working on the definitive biography of Oliver…

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Parkinson’s Awareness Month and More

April 22, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

  Did you know that Oliver Sacks once bought a house during a swim around New York’s City Island? He lived there for over twenty years. In his upcoming essay…

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A New Oliver Sacks Book and Photos From the Archive

April 22, 2019 / Kate Edgar / News

Everything in Its Place, the final collection of essays by Oliver Sacks, will be available on April 23, 2019. Publishers Weekly calls it “a treat for the chronically curious.” They write:…

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A new Oliver Sacks book is on the way!

December 8, 2018 / Kate Edgar / News

  We are proud to announce a final collection of essays–many never before published, coming your way on April 23, 2019! Everything in Its Place: First Loves and Last Tales,…

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Celebrating Oliver Sacks’s Birthday

July 9, 2018 / Kate Edgar / News

Oliver loved to celebrate his birthday, July 9. He would start the day with a swim, and then we would round up the usual suspects and throw a party with…

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The Animated Mind of Oliver Sacks — a film in progress

June 19, 2018 / Kate Edgar / News

Oliver Sacks’s animated mind is becoming an animated film, and we hope you will be a part of it! Dempsey Rice, the filmmaker who brought us so many fascinating interviews…

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Creativity Depends on Openness to Change

December 9, 2017 / Kate Edgar / News

How we wish Dr. Sacks were still alive to see the glorious reviews for his new book, The River of Consciousness. In this week’s New York Times Book Review, Nicole Krauss writes: “In…

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A New Oliver Sacks Book! and two live events

September 29, 2017 / Kate Edgar / News

Two weeks before his death in August 2015, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, the last book he would oversee in detail, and charged three of…

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  • A New Oliver Sacks Podcast, Available Now
  • A One-Night-Only U.K. and Ireland Screening of the Oliver Sacks Documentary
  • A classic Oliver Sacks book gets an upgrade.
  • The periodic table in Oliver Sacks’ wallet.
  • Radiolab’s Robert Krulwich, Oliver Sacks documentary on PBS American Masters

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