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Tripping the light fantastic with Oliver Sachs (YouTube)

Oliver Sacks PSA: Stick to LSD, Stay Off Adderall [Video]

Oliver Sacks, the acclaimed British neurologist (and amateur chemist, hint hint) whose essays about prosopagnosia and other weird brain disorders have appeared in The New Yorker and several best-selling books, isn’t going to condone the use of hallucinogens as a way to get rid of headaches/gain insight into and empathy toward others/see pretty fractal patterns. But to paraphrase Hunter S. Thompson, it’s always worked for him, as he notes in a recent YouTube video posted to his account. Read More

What Nory Knew: Baker Bares a 9-Year-Old’s Brain

The Everlasting Story of Nory , by Nicholson Baker. Random House, 226 pages, $22.

Nicholson Baker is a freaky case. He’s a big-time talent, smart, stubbornly perverse, sleazily, lewd–and now, with his chaste new novel about a 9-year-old girl, deep-snooze dull. Is there an exotic syndrome that causes good writers to skid off course and Read More