Matches in DBpedia 2016-04 for { <http://dbpedia.org/resource/Lawrence_Weschler> ?p ?o }
Showing triples 1 to 96 of
96
with 100 triples per page.
- Lawrence_Weschler abstract "Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) 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 Awards—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 (1984); A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990); and Calamities of Exile: Three Nonfiction Novellas (1998).His “Passions and Wonders” series currently comprises Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: A Life of Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (1982); David Hockney’s Cameraworks (1984); Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder (1995); A Wanderer in the Perfect City: Selected Passion Pieces (1998) Boggs: A Comedy of Values (1999); Robert Irwin: Getty Garden (2002); Vermeer in Bosnia (2004); and Everything that Rises: A Book of Convergences (February 2006). Mr. Wilson was shortlisted for both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Everything that Rises received the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism.Recent books include a considerably expanded edition of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, comprising thirty years of conversations with Robert Irwin; a companion volume, True to Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversation with David Hockney; Liza Lou (a monograph out of Rizzoli); Tara Donovan, the catalog for the artist’s recent exhibition at Boston’s Institute for Contemporary Art, and Deborah Butterfield, the catalog for a survey of the artist’s work at the LA Louver Gallery. His latest addition to “Passions and Wonders,” the collection Uncanny Valley: Adventures in the Narrative, came out from Counterpoint in October 2011.\tWeschler has taught, variously, at Princeton, Columbia, UCSC, Bard, Vassar, Sarah Lawrence, and NYU, where he is now distinguished writer in residence at the Carter Journalism Institute.\tHe recently graduated to director emeritus of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU, where he has been a fellow since 1991 and was director from 2001-2013, and from which base he had tried to start his own semiannual journal of writing and visual culture, Omnivore. He is also the artistic director emeritus, still actively engaged, with the Chicago Humanities Festival, and curator for New York Live Ideas, an annual body-based humanities collaboration with Bill T. Jones and his NY Live Arts. He is a contributing editor to McSweeney’s, the Threepeeny Review, and The Virginia Quarterly Review; curator at large of the DVD quarterly Wholphin; (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. He recently launched “Pillow of Air,” a monthly “Amble through the worlds of the visual” column in The Believer.".
- Lawrence_Weschler activeYearsStartYear "1981".
- Lawrence_Weschler birthPlace Van_Nuys,_Los_Angeles.
- Lawrence_Weschler genre Creative_nonfiction.
- Lawrence_Weschler nationality United_States.
- Lawrence_Weschler thumbnail Lawrence_Weschler_by_David_Shankbone.jpg?width=300.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageExternalLink oliver-sacks-autobiography-before-cancer.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageID "2387576".
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageLength "6109".
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageOutDegree "29".
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageRevisionID "705504141".
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:1952_births.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_male_journalists.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:American_non-fiction_writers.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Bard_College_faculty.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:George_Polk_Award_recipients.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Guggenheim_Fellows.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Jewish_American_writers.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Living_people.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:McSweeneys.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:New_York_University_faculty.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Place_of_birth_missing_(living_people).
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Sarah_Lawrence_College_faculty.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:The_New_Yorker_people.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:The_New_Yorker_staff_writers.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz_alumni.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Category:Writers_from_New_York.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Creative_nonfiction.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Ernst_Toch.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink George_Polk_Awards.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink J._S._G._Boggs.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Mr._Wilsons_Cabinet_of_Wonder.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink The_Believer_(magazine).
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink The_New_Yorker.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLink Van_Nuys,_Los_Angeles.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageWikiLinkText "Lawrence Weschler".
- Lawrence_Weschler birthDate "1952".
- Lawrence_Weschler birthPlace Van_Nuys,_Los_Angeles.
- Lawrence_Weschler genre Creative_nonfiction.
- Lawrence_Weschler imagesize "275".
- Lawrence_Weschler name "Lawrence Weschler".
- Lawrence_Weschler nationality United_States.
- Lawrence_Weschler occupation "Writer".
- Lawrence_Weschler period "1981".
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Authority_control.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:BLP_unsourced.
- Lawrence_Weschler wikiPageUsesTemplate Template:Infobox_writer.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:1952_births.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:American_male_journalists.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:American_non-fiction_writers.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Bard_College_faculty.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:George_Polk_Award_recipients.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Guggenheim_Fellows.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Jewish_American_writers.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Living_people.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:McSweeneys.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:New_York_University_faculty.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Place_of_birth_missing_(living_people).
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Sarah_Lawrence_College_faculty.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:The_New_Yorker_people.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:The_New_Yorker_staff_writers.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:University_of_California,_Santa_Cruz_alumni.
- Lawrence_Weschler subject Category:Writers_from_New_York.
- Lawrence_Weschler hypernym Author.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Agent.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Company.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Journalist.
- Lawrence_Weschler type List.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Person.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Writer.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Person.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Company.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Journalist.
- Lawrence_Weschler type List.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Winner.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Writer.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Agent.
- Lawrence_Weschler type NaturalPerson.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Thing.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Q215627.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Q36180.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Q5.
- Lawrence_Weschler type Person.
- Lawrence_Weschler comment "Lawrence Weschler (born 1952) is an author of works of creative nonfiction.A graduate of Cowell College of the University of California, Santa Cruz (1974), Weschler was for over twenty years (1981–2002) a staff writer at The New Yorker, where his work shuttled between political tragedies and cultural comedies.".
- Lawrence_Weschler label "Lawrence Weschler".
- Lawrence_Weschler sameAs Q2315504.
- Lawrence_Weschler sameAs Lawrence_Weschler.
- Lawrence_Weschler sameAs Lawrence_Weschler.
- Lawrence_Weschler sameAs m.078f15.
- Lawrence_Weschler sameAs Q2315504.
- Lawrence_Weschler wasDerivedFrom Lawrence_Weschler?oldid=705504141.
- Lawrence_Weschler depiction Lawrence_Weschler_by_David_Shankbone.jpg.
- Lawrence_Weschler isPrimaryTopicOf Lawrence_Weschler.
- Lawrence_Weschler name "Lawrence Weschler".