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November 29, 2007
Lawrence Weschler
Everything that Rises: A Defense of Loose Synapsed Moments
In his recent award winning book, Everything that Rises, as well as in the contest it spawned on McSweeneys.net, the Humanities Institute he has been directing at NYU, the Chicago Humanities Festival over which he presides, and his twenty-some-odd years as a staff writer at the New Yorker, Lawrence Weschler has regularly seemed willing to entertain leaps that transcend more orthodox academic and scholarly categories. Has this been a good or a bad thing? Even he is not sure, but he discusses the matter across a powerpoint and internet fueled lecture.
Supported by the UM Program in Creativity and Consciousness Studies.
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Selected Bibliography
- "A Wanderer in the Perfect City." 6 November 2007
- "Conversational Reading: Lawrence Weschler." 6 November 2007
- Diesenhaus, Doug. "THE WESCHLER CONNECTION." Poets & Writers 34.3: 50. 7 November 2007
- "In Conversation With Lawrence Weschler - washingtonpost.com." 6 November 2007
- "Lawrence Weschler - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia." 8 November 2007
- "Lawrence Weschler's Topic." 6 November 2007
- "McSweeney's Internet Tendency: Those Wacky Htoo Twins." 6 November 2007
- "The God Particle - Lawrence Weschler." 6 November 2007
- "The Morning News - Lawrence Weschler by Robert Birnbaum." 6 November 2007
- Weschler, Lawrence. Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences. San Francisco, Calif: McSweeney's Books, 2006. Hatcher Graduate Library N 6490 .W37 2006
- Weschler, Lawrence. Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder. New York: Pantheon Books, 1995. Hatcher Graduate Library AM 101 .L88 W47 1995
- Weschler, Lawrence. Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1982. Art Architecture & Engineering Library - Basement N6537.I72 W51
- Weschler, Lawrence. Vermeer in Bosnia: A Reader. New York: Pantheon Books, 2004. Hatcher Graduate Library NX 65 .W451 2004
- "YouTube - A Convergence of Convergences - Lawrence Weschler." 6 November 2007
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