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Oliver Sacks in the news…We host him at Live Talks LA on Nov 14 in conversation with David Milch
We host neurologist Oliver Sacks at Live Talks Los Angeles on Wednesday, November 14th at The Aero Theatre. He’ll be in conversation with David Milch, Emmy Award-winning writer and producer. Only a few tickets remain. Ticket info here. The occasion for us hosting Dr. Sacks is the publication of his new book, Hallucinations, which was published today….Here are some stories, interviews, features and reviews on Sacks and his book.
— Wall Street Journal, Nov 5: Speakeasy: Oliver Sacks Sees Things Most People Don’t
— New York Magazine, Nov 4: A Brain with a Heart
— New York Times, Nov 3: Opinion (By Oliver Sacks) – Seeing Things? Hearing Things? Many of Us Do.
— NPR Fresh Air, Nov 6: Oliver Sacks, Exploring How Hallucinations Happen
— Omnivoracious Blog (Amazon), Nov 6: The Neurological and the Devine: An Interview with Oliver Sacks
— Wall Street Journal, Nov 1, Tripping Makes a Comeback
— Entertainment Weekly, Nov 1, Book Review: Hallucinations, by Oliver Sacks
— Smiley & West Radio Show, Oct 17, Oliver Sacks interview on Hallucinations (audio)
— The Guardian, Oct 30, Oliver Sacks shares his hallucinations
— NPR First Read: Listen to/Read an excerpt from Oliver Sacks’ book, on “Hearing things”
— The New Yorker: Out Loud: Drugs and Oliver Sacks
— TED Talk: What hallucination reveals about our mind
November 14 — An Evening with Oliver Sacks in conversation with David Milch
Wednesday, November 14, 2012
8:00pm (Reception 6:30-7:30pm)
An Evening with Oliver Sacks
in conversation with David Milch
discussing Sacks’ new book, Hallucinations
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA
PURCHASE TICKETS/SIGNED BOOKS
(SORRY EVENT IS SOLD OUT. THERE MAY BE SOME STAND BY TICKETS IN THE EVENT OF NO SHOWS. YOU CAN STILL PURCHASE SIGNED BOOKS THAT WILL BE MAILED TO YOU. VIDEO WILL BE POSTED ON OUR VIDEO PAGE SOON AFTER THE EVENT, APPROX 10 DAYS)
$20, $40 includes Sack’s book,
$35 signed book purchase only (shipping included to US destinations)
$95 includes the book + pre-event reception*
Oliver Sacks in the news…(Reviews, interviews, features, radio pieces and video)
New York Times, Wall Street Journal, NPR, New York Magazine, The New Yorker, Entertainment Weekly, and more…
A provocative investigation into hallucinations—their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural resonances.
In his latest book, neurologist and bestselling author, Oliver Sacks (Awakenings, The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, The Mind’s Eye) presents a provocative investigation into hallucinations—their many guises, their physiological sources, and their personal and cultural resonances. Join us at Live Talks Los Angeles as he discusses what hallucinations say about the organization and structure of our brains, how they have influenced every culture’s folklore and art, and why the potential for hallucination is present in all of us.
Hallucinations, for most people, imply madness. But there are many different types of non-psychotic hallucination caused by various illnesses or injuries, by intoxication—even, for many people, by falling asleep. From the elementary geometrical shapes that we see when we rub our eyes to the complex swirls and blind spots and zigzags of a visual migraine, hallucination takes many forms.
In his new book, Hallucinations, physician and best-selling author Oliver Sacks draws on a wealth of clinical examples from his own patients as well as historical and literary descriptions as he investigates the fundamental differences and similarities of these many sorts of hallucinations.
David Milch is an Emmy-Award-winning writer and producer responsible for some of the most celebrated television dramas of the last three decades. Milch, who won the Tinker Prize for highest achievement in English at Yale University and earned an M.F.A.from the Writers’ Workshop at The University of Iowa, left a teaching career at Yale to write for Hill Street Blues. He subsequently served as Executive Story Editor and then Executive Producer for Hill Street Blues. In 1992, Milch co-created the history-making police drama NYPD Blue. Milch took home Emmys for Best Writing in a Drama for the 1996-1997 and 1997-1998 seasons. Milch created another police drama, Brooklyn South, and co-authored, along with NYPD Blue producer Bill Clark, True Blue: The Real Stories Behind NYPD Blue, and served as creative consultant for Steven Bochco’s Murder One and Total Security. Milch also created and was the Executive Producers of Deadwood and Luck for HBO. He is currently developing a legal drama for NBC with Steven Bochco, and the feature film Heavy Rain for Warner Bros.
* Proceeds from tickets to the reception support the upcoming Live Talks Los Angeles emerging voices/authors series of events that commence in 2013.
$20, $40 includes Sack’s book,
$95 includes pre-event reception (6:30-7:30pm) plus book
The Aero Theatre
1328 Montana Avenue
Santa Monica, CA