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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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New Videos on YouTube!

April 26, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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The Last Hippie and the Grateful Dead

February 24, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Music, Metals, and Learning

January 30, 2011 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Wrapping up 2010

December 21, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Giving Thanks for Great Readers!

November 22, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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The Mind’s Eye is now available!

October 25, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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The Mind’s Eye book tour

September 13, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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Gotta Dance!

August 3, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

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)…

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Reading, writing and evolution

July 13, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

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…

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SquidMania

June 12, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

Dr. Sacks’s favorite creatures are cephalopods: squids, octopus, cuttlefish, nautilus–all those mollusks that have neurons not only in their heads (cephalo-) but in their feet (-pods) as well. They’re very smart….

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iPad apps, literary journals, science festivals

May 13, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

In a somewhat circuitous way, Dr. Sacks’s Uncle Tungsten has inspired a hot new iPad app by Theodore Gray, of Periodic Table fame. It’s a gorgeous new way to enjoy…

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The Mind’s Eye coming in October 2010!

May 13, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

Dr. Sacks just delivered the manuscript for his new book, The Mind’s Eye, to his publishers. Alfred A. Knopf will publish the book in the US on October 26, 2010….

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Cameras are rolling…

March 9, 2010 / Kate Edgar / News

Last week, production began on a new feature film based on Dr. Sacks’s essay “The Last Hippie,” in An Anthropologist on Mars.  Jim Kohlberg is directing the indie film, which…

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