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Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness

May 21, 2013 / Kate Edgar / News

    President Obama, marking National Mental Health Awareness Month, has called for an end to the shame and stigma attached to mental illness. As activist Elyn Saks puts it, “there is…

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Now Hear This!

April 2, 2013 / Kate Edgar / News

April 3 is our good friend Jane Goodall’s birthday—happy gold (79) birthday to you, Jane! If you are interested in hearing Jane Goodall speak, please visit her website. Also this month there are…

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“Words, words, words.”

March 20, 2013 / Kate Edgar / News

Dr. Sacks has just returned from a three-day visit to the University of Warwick, where he gave a lecture on the importance of the case history in medicine—and saw the Royal…

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Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts announce Oliver Sacks festival

February 1, 2013 / Kate Edgar / News

Today, New York Live Arts announces their first annual festival of arts and ideas in New York City, a series called Live Ideas. The inaugural festival, from April 17-21, 2013, is…

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Happy 50th, New York Review of Books!

January 15, 2013 / Kate Edgar / News

Happy anniversary to our great friends at the New York Review of Books, who are celebrating 50 years of publishing wide-ranging, thought-provoking essays and criticism, ranging from art and politics to…

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Happy Holidays!

December 12, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

12/12/12 Dear Readers, Thanks to you, Hallucinations is a New York Times bestseller! Coming up this week: Dr. Sacks discusses his take on Eben Alexander’s book Proof of Heaven, online…

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Hallucinations now available as book, e-book, and audiobook!

November 8, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

What an exciting week! Hallucinations is now on sale (as a book, e-book, and audiobook) in the US, UK, Australia, and New Zealand. Over the next few weeks, you will likely hear…

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Hot off the press! Hallucinations, phantoms, and more

October 10, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

We here in the Sacks office are eagerly awaiting publication of Dr. Sacks’s new book,Hallucinations. The very first copy reached his hands today! In the US and Canada, as well…

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What I Learned from Hallucinogens

August 21, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

    This week’s New Yorker (issue dated August 27) features an excerpt from Dr. Sacks’s new book, Hallucinations. At newyorker.com, Dr. Sacks talks about his psychedelic days in an audio interview….

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Björk, Musicophilia, and Face Blindness

August 3, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

A sneak preview of Hallucinations will run in the New Yorker’s issue dated August 27th, on stands August 20, 2012 (barring last-minute scheduling changes by the magazine). The book itself will be published…

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Linnaeus and (Out of) Body Experiences

June 21, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

Hallucinations has gone off to the printers, and will be published on November 6!  Here’s what the jacket looks like, thanks to designer Hailey Wojcik:     Dr. Sacks just…

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The Man Who Forgot How to Read

May 16, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

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

April 13, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Ferns, chocolate, and capybaras

March 9, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Dragons and Doctors

January 25, 2012 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Thanks to you

November 21, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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The Mind’s Eye in paperback!

October 21, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Now on DVD: The Music Never Stopped

August 5, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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The Sex Life of Horsetails

July 25, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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,…

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Tourettesville

May 27, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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