Lawrence Weschler

Lawrence Weschler's Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences (McSweeney's, 2007) won last year's National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism. This fall, his paired books of conversations with artists Robert Irwin (Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees) and David Hockney (True to Life) are being published by the University of California Press. Weschler currently serves as both the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU and the artistic director of the Chicago Humanities Festival.