A widely honored journalist, Lawrence Weschler is the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He is the author of twelve books, including Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vermeer in Bosnia, and, most recently, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences.

"Weschler is the owner of a large dose of novelistic vision, and a particularly poetic set of ears, but... as important an endowment as a novelist's eye or a poet's ear is still the journalistic nose which led him down the proverbial alley." - National Post (Canada) "Weschler is a thoughtful observer and a superb storyteller." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "Weschler's essays are exquisitely written - so perfectly and unobtrusively organized that one can't imagine telling them a better way." - New York Times Book Review"

A widely honored journalist, Lawrence Weschler is the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at New York University. He is the author of twelve books, including Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Vermeer in Bosnia, and, most recently, Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences.

"Weschler is the owner of a large dose of novelistic vision, and a particularly poetic set of ears, but... as important an endowment as a novelist's eye or a poet's ear is still the journalistic nose which led him down the proverbial alley." - National Post (Canada) "Weschler is a thoughtful observer and a superb storyteller." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "Weschler's essays are exquisitely written - so perfectly and unobtrusively organized that one can't imagine telling them a better way." - New York Times Book Review"