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Celebrating Dr. Oliver Sacks: best-selling author and neurologist. Follow the link below to watch Brilliant Minds on NBC and preorder Oliver's LETTERS now.

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The Oliver Sacks Foundation aims to  make Dr. Sacks’s writings available to the broadest possible audience, reduce the stigma of mental and neurological illness, and support a humane approach to neurology and psychiatry.
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Last week composer Tobias Picker was featured on Relevant Tones, where he spoke about his Awakenings opera. The interview provides an insight into his relationship with Oliver and features excerpts from the opera. Listen here 🎶 relevanttones.com/2024/11/04/448…
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Congratulations to Ira Flatow and the whole crew at @scifri on their 33rd broadcast anniversary! In a special episode to mark the occasion, Ira revisits a 2007 conversation with Oliver Sacks about music and the brain. Airs from 2-4 pm today. sciencefriday.com/segments/olive…
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Happy pub day to LETTERS, the new collection of Oliver Sacks’s correspondence! LETTERS is full of his deepest thoughts on music, art, and science, friendship and resilience, and what it takes to lead a meaningful life. Get your copy here: oliversacks.com/oliver-sacks-b…
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... – far from being the self-absorbed obsessions of a pedant – were first and foremost an act of reaching out, the means through which he sought to communicate with others, a “love affair with the world.” Read Ralf Webb's review of LETTERS in @guardianbooks
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"Letters leaves one with the overwhelming impression of a brilliant and vivid mind, a man whose intellectual appetite was vast, and whose professional and creative passions... theguardian.com/books/2024/oct…
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The @OliverSacks Foundation is publishing collected "Letters" by Oliver Sacks on November 5 (ready to pre-order). Reading his books has been a spiritual experience for me since I was a teenager. I am beyond grateful to the people creating further access to his mind through the new artifacts they are creating. There is also going to be "Letters of Oliver Sacks: A Reading and Conversation" event on November 7 at 8pm in NYC: "In celebration of their publication, hear a one-of-a-kind reading from these letters with acclaimed actor Zachary Quinto — who plays a neurologist inspired by Sacks in the new series Brilliant Minds — followed by a candid conversation with award-winning writers Kay Redfield Jamison, @themarginalian Maria Popova, Wendy Lesser, journalist Ira Flatow, Brilliant Minds showrunner Michael Grassi, and Sacks’ partner, Bill Hayes." Links in comment
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Alongside the essay, read excerpts from LETTERS, edited by Kate Edgar, which vividly depict the young Oliver struggling to find his way in the world as both a doctor and a writer, under the strain of intense self-doubt and battles with his own emotional and mental health.
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“I have always felt transparent, without substance, a ghost, a transient, homeless, or outcast,” Oliver wrote in a previously unpublished letter. In a guest essay, Sacks's partner, Bill Hayes, writes about reading these letters for the first time. nytimes.com/2024/10/19/opi…
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