Everything in Its Place
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Several works were previously published, some in different form, in the following publications:
FIRST LOVES
“Water Babies” first appeared in The New Yorker, May 26, 1997.
“Remembering South Kensington” first appeared in Discover, November 1991.
“First Love” first appeared in The New York Review of Books, October 18, 2001, and in Uncle Tungsten.
“Humphry Davy: Poet of Chemistry” first appeared in longer form in The New York Review of Books, November 4, 1993.
“Libraries” first appeared in The Threepenny Review, Fall 2014.
“A Journey Inside the Brain” first appeared in slightly different form in The New York Review of Books, March 20, 2008, and as an introduction to Frigyes Karinthy, A Journey Round My Skull (New York: New York Review Books, 2008).
CLINICAL TALES
“Cold Storage” first appeared in slightly different form in Granta, Spring 1987.
“Neurological Dreams” first appeared in somewhat different form in MD 35, no. 2 (February 1991) and in Deirdre Barrett, ed., Trauma and Dreams (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1996).
“Nothingness” first appeared in slightly different form in Richard L. Gregory, ed., The Oxford Companion to the Mind (New York: Oxford University Press, 1987).
“Seeing God in the Third Millennium” first appeared on www.theatlantic.com, December 2012.
“Hiccups and Other Curious Behaviors” is previously unpublished.
“Travels with Lowell” is previously unpublished, and incorporates some of “The Divine Curse,” which originally appeared in Life, September 1988.
“Urge” first appeared in The New York Review of Books, September 24, 2015.
“The Catastrophe” first appeared in The New Yorker, April 27, 2015.
“Dangerously Well” is based on an article by Oliver Sacks and Melanie Shulman published in Neurology 64 (2005) under the title “Steroid Dementia: An Overlooked Diagnosis?”
“Tea and Toast” is previously unpublished.
“Telling” is previously unpublished.
“The Aging Brain” is based on an article published in the Archives of Neurology, October 1997.
“Kuru” first appeared in somewhat different form in The New Yorker, April 14, 1997, under the title “Eat, Drink, and Be Wary.”
“A Summer of Madness” first appeared in The New York Review of Books, September 25, 2008.
“The Lost Virtues of the Asylum” first appeared in slightly different form in The New York Review of Books (September 24, 2009) and as a foreword in Christopher Payne, Asylum (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 2009).
LIFE CONTINUES
“Anybody Out There?” first appeared, in slightly different form, in Natural History, November 2002, and in Astrobiology Magazine, December 2002.
“Clupeophilia” first appeared in The New Yorker, July 20, 2009.
“Colorado Springs Revisited” first appeared in Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Spring 2010.
“Botanists on Park” first appeared in The New Yorker, August 13, 2007.
“Greetings from the Island of Stability” first appeared in The New York Times, February 8, 2004.
“Reading the Fine Print” first appeared in The New York Times Book Review, December 14, 2012.
“The Elephant’s Gait” first appeared in the journal Omnivore, Autumn 2003.
“Orangutan” is previously unpublished.
“Why We Need Gardens” is previously unpublished.
“Night of the Ginkgo” first appeared in The New Yorker, November 24, 2014.
“Filter Fish” first appeared in The New Yorker, September 14, 2015.
“Life Continues” is previously unpublished.
A NOTE ABOUT THE AUTHOR
OLIVER SACKS was born in London in 1933. He studied medicine at Oxford, followed by residencies at San Francisco’s Mt. Zion Hospital and at UCLA. For the next fifty years, he worked as a neurologist at various institutions in New York City for the chronically ill, including Beth Abraham Hospital, Bronx State Hospital, and several nursing homes run by the Little Sisters of the Poor.
The New York Times referred to Sacks as “the poet laureate of medicine.” He is best known for his collections of neurological case histories, including The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Musicophilia, An Anthropologist on Mars, and Hallucinations. “Again and again,” said the Los Angeles Times, “Sacks invites readers to imagine their way into minds unlike their own, encouraging a radical form of empathy.”
Awakenings, his 1973 book about a group of patients who had survived the great encephalitis lethargica epidemic of the early twentieth century, inspired the 1990 Academy Award–nominated feature film starring Robert De Niro and Robin Williams.
Dr. Sacks was a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, The New York Review of Books, and many other journals. He was a member of the Royal College of Physicians, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2008, Queen Elizabeth II named him a Commander of the Order of the British Empire.
Dr. Sacks served as a board member of the New York Botanical Garden, which awarded him its Gold Medal in 2011.
The asteroid 84928 Oliversacks was named in honor of his seventy-fifth birthday in 2008.
Dr. Sacks died in New York City in 2015, a few months after the publication of his memoir On the Move.
For more information about Dr. Sacks and the Oliver Sacks Foundation, please visit www.oliversacks.com.
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