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On Turning 80 19 Jul 2013 | 04:46 am
The last few weeks have been exciting! Hallucinations just came out in paperback in the US and UK, and is already on the New York Times bestseller list. Dr. Sacks turned 80 on July 9, and celebrated...
Write On! 28 Jun 2013 | 06:05 am
Forty years ago today, the first edition of Awakenings was published in England. It was the second book by a little-known doctor, Oliver Sacks (the first was Migraine), and it told the extraordinary R...
Ending the Stigma of Mental Illness 21 May 2013 | 09:10 pm
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 a tremendous need to...
Now Hear This! 3 Apr 2013 | 12:16 am
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 lots ...
“Words, words, words.” 20 Mar 2013 | 10:19 pm
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 Shakespeare Company perform...
Bill T. Jones, New York Live Arts announce Oliver Sacks festival 1 Feb 2013 | 11:26 pm
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 devoted to “The World...
Happy 50th, New York Review of Books! 15 Jan 2013 | 11:13 pm
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 t...
Happy Holidays! 12 Dec 2012 | 07:56 pm
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 at The Atlantic...
Hallucinations now available as book, e-book, and audiobook! 9 Nov 2012 | 02:29 am
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 Dr. Sacks talk about th...
Hot off the press! Hallucinations, phantoms, and more 11 Oct 2012 | 02:45 am
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 as UK, Australia and Ne...
