Background
Weschler, Lawrence Michael was born on February 13, 1952 in Van Nuys, California, United States. Son of Irving R. and Franzi (Toch) Weschler.
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(A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers ) Author: Lawrence Weschler Aug-1998
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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
( From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the d...)
From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the depths of the cosmos to the text on our T-shirts, Lawrence Weschler finds strange connections wherever he looks. The farther (and further) one travels (through geography, through art, through science, through time), the more everything seems to converge — at least, it does through Weschler's giddy, brilliant eyes. Weschler combines his keen insights into art (both contemporary and Renaissance), his years of experience as a chronicler of the fall of Communism, and his triumphs and failures as the father of a teenage girl into a series of articles — complemented by color photos and illustrations throughout — that are sure to illuminuate, educate, and astound.
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Hardcover March 10, 1982
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A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces by Weschler, Lawrence (1998) Paperback
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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Weschler, Lawrence (2007) Paperback
(First Trade Paper Ed)
First Trade Paper Ed
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Boggs: A Comedy of Values
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Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Weschler, Lawrence (2000) Paperback
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A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
(Traces the life and career of the California artist, who ...)
Traces the life and career of the California artist, who currently works with pure light and the subtle modulation of empty space.
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Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies Hardcover July 6, 2004
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Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies
(From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confo...)
From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confounding–author of Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder–here is a much-anticipated new collection of more than twenty pieces from the past two decades, the majority of which have never before been gathered together in book form. Lawrence Weschler is not simply a superb reporter, essayist, and cultural observer; he is also an uncanny collector and connector of wonders. In Vermeer in Bosnia, whether he is reporting on the aftermath of the Yugoslav wars (and noticing, for example, how centuries earlier Vermeer had had to invent the peace and serenity we so prize in his work today from a youth during which all of Europe had been as ravaged as Bosnia) or dissecting the special quality of light in his beloved hometown of Los Angeles, Weschler’s perceptions are often startling, his insights both fresh and profound. Included here is Weschler’s remarkable profile of Roman Polanski–written years before the release of The Pianist, yet all but predicting the director’s confrontation with the Holocaust in that film–alongside an equally celebrated portrait of Ed Weinberger, a young designer crushed and yet hardly bowed by an extreme form of Parkinson’s disease. Here is Weschler limning his own experience as the grandson of an eminent Weimar-era composer, and then as the befuddled father of an eminently fetching daughter. Here is Weschler on Art Spiegelman, David Hockney, Ed Kienholz, and Wislawa Szymborska. Here, in short, are some of the most dazzling pieces from Lawrence Weschler’s own brimming cabinet of marvels.
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Passion of Poland
(From solidarity through the state of war)
From solidarity through the state of war
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By Lawrence Weschler - Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (2007-08-12) Paperback
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(Boggs: A Comedy of Values) Author: Lawrence Weschler published on (December, 2000)
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Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings
(There are writers who specialize in the strange and other...)
There are writers who specialize in the strange and others whose genius is to find the strangeness in the familiar, the unexpected meanings in stories we thought we knew. Of that second category, Lawrence Weschler is the master. Witness the pieces in this splendidly disorienting collection, spanning twenty years of his career and the full range of his concerns–which is to say, practically everything. Only Lawrence Weschler could reveal the connections between the twentieth century’s Yugoslav wars and the equally violent Holland in which Vermeer created his luminously serene paintings. In his profile of Roman Polanski, Weschler traces the filmmaker’s symbolic negotiations with his nightmarish childhood during the Holocaust. Here, too, are meditations on artists Ed Kienholz and David Hockney, on the author’s grandfather and daughter, and on the light and earthquakes of his native Los Angeles. Haunting, elegant, and intoxicating, Vermeer in Bosnia awakens awe and wonder at the world around us.
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A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers Reprint edition by Weschler, Lawrence (1998) Paperback
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A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces
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Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion
(Poland in the season of its pasion)
Poland in the season of its pasion
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Weschler, Lawrence (1982) Paperback
(Reprint)
Reprint
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(Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences) Author: Lawrence Weschler published on (August, 2007)
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By Lawrence Weschler A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (Reprint) Paperback
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Calamities of Exile
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Vermeer in Bosnia
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- Seeing is Forgetting The Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler (1982-03-10)
- Passion of Poland by Lawrence Weschler (1984-04-12)
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin First edition by Weschler, Lawrence (1982) Hardcover
- Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion by Lawrence Weschler (1982-03-26)
- Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion (Remainder mark lower edge, else clean)
- A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers by Lawrence Weschler (1998-07-01) (Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
Lawrence Michael Weschler
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Lawrence Michael Weschler, American Writer, journalist. Recipient Hemingway prize Overseas Press Club, 1982, Sidney Hillman award, 1989, George Polk award for best magazine reporting, 1992; Pointer fellow Yale University, 1982, Guggenheim fellow, 1986-1987, New York Institute for Humanities fellow, since 1991, Bard Center fellow, since 1992.
Education
Bachelor in Philosophy and Cultural History, University of California, Santa Cruz, 1974.
Career
Interviewer, editor Oral History Program, University of California at Los Angeles, 1974-1978; freelance writer, Los Angeles, 1978-1980; staff writer, The New Yorker magazine, New York City, since 1981.
Achievements
Works
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Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings
(There are writers who specialize in the strange and other...)
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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences
( From a cuneiform tablet to a Chicago prison, from the d...)
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
(Traces the life and career of the California artist, who ...)
-
Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies
(From the master chronicler of the marvelous and the confo...)
-
Passion of Poland
(From solidarity through the state of war)
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Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion
(Remainder mark lower edge, else clean)
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Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion
(Poland in the season of its pasion)
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A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers by Lawrence Weschler (1998-07-01)
(Will be shipped from US. Used books may not include compa...)
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Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences by Weschler, Lawrence (2007) Paperback
(First Trade Paper Ed)
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Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Weschler, Lawrence (1982) Paperback
(Reprint)
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Boggs: A Comedy of Values by Weschler, Lawrence (2000) Paperback
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- Seeing is Forgetting The Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler (1982-03-10)
- (A Miracle, a Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers ) Author: Lawrence Weschler Aug-1998
- Passion of Poland by Lawrence Weschler (1984-04-12)
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin Hardcover March 10, 1982
- A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces by Weschler, Lawrence (1998) Paperback
- Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin First edition by Weschler, Lawrence (1982) Hardcover
- Boggs: A Comedy of Values
- Solidarity: Poland in the Season of its Passion by Lawrence Weschler (1982-03-26)
- A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers
- Vermeer in Bosnia: Cultural Comedies and Political Tragedies Hardcover July 6, 2004
- By Lawrence Weschler - Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences (2007-08-12) Paperback
- (Boggs: A Comedy of Values) Author: Lawrence Weschler published on (December, 2000)
- A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers Reprint edition by Weschler, Lawrence (1998) Paperback
- A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces
- (Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences) Author: Lawrence Weschler published on (August, 2007)
- By Lawrence Weschler A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (Reprint) Paperback
- Calamities of Exile
- Vermeer in Bosnia
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Vermeer in Bosnia: Selected Writings
Membership
Co-director Ernst Toch Archive & Society, Los Angeles, since 1972. Member Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association, National Writers Union.
Connections
Married Joanna S. Wegrzynowicz, February 22, 1984. 1 child, Sara Alice.
Education
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1974
Career
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1974 - 1978
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1978 - 1980
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1981
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Recipient Hemingway prize Overseas Press Club, 1982, Sidney Hillman award, 1989, George Polk award for best magazine reporting, 1992. Pointer fellow Yale University, 1982, Guggenheim fellow, 1986-1987, New York Institute for Humanities fellow, since 1991, Bard Center fellow, since 1992.Recipient Hemingway prize Overseas Press Club, 1982, Sidney Hillman award, 1989, George Polk award for best magazine reporting, 1992. Pointer fellow Yale University, 1982, Guggenheim fellow, 1986-1987, New York Institute for Humanities fellow, since 1991, Bard Center fellow, since 1992.