Posts Tagged ‘Oliver Sacks’

Dear Memoir

An open letter to a popular genre.

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The Courtyards of Rebirth:
Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings, Part II

It is appropriate to tiptoe into the courtyards of suffering and rebirth and listen, watch, and learn.

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What Ghosts Teach:
Oliver Sacks’s Awakenings, Part I

Book available on Amazon.com. What could being asleep for fifty years, and then awakening, teach a person about life? You might tell me to Google Washington Irving or the Brothers Grimm and see what lessons they intended, but I am dead serious when I ask this question. I ask it because in the early part [...]

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