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Lawrence Weschler
Lawrence Weschler was for over twenty years (1981-2002), until his recent retirement, a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies. He is a two-time winner of the George Polk Award (for Cultural Reporting in 1988 and Magazine Reporting in 1992) and was also a recipient of Lannan Literary Award (1998). His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland, A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers, and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas. His Passions and Wonders series currently comprises Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin, David Hockneys Cameraworks, Mr. Wilsons Cabinet of Wonder, A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces, Boggs: A Comedy of Values, Robert Irwin: Getty Garden, Vermeer in Bosnia and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences. Mr. Wilson was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Everything that Rises won the latter, for criticism, in 2007. Recently published in the fall of 2008 are three new volumes: An expanded edition of his first book, Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Thirty Years of Conversations with Artist Robert Irwin, a companion volume, True to Life: Twenty-five Years of Conversations with Artist David Hockney, and a catalog monograph on the artist Tara Donovan to accompany her show at Bostons ICA. He has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, NYU, and Sarah Lawrence. He is currently director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991, and from which base he is trying to start his own semiannual journal of writing and visual culture, Omnivore. He concurrently holds the position of artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival. He is also a contributing editor to McSweeneys and the Threepeeny Review, curator at large of the DVD quarterly Wholphin and art wrangler for the Virginia Quarterly Review; (recently retired) chair of the Sundance (formerly Soros) Documentary Film Fund; and director of the Ernst Toch Society, dedicated to the promulgation of the music of his grandfather, the noted Weimar emigre composer.
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