PositiveBooklistWeschler’s...book about neurologist Oliver Sacks...which began as a prospective profile for the New Yorker, isn’t a standard biography, but instead a memoir of what his subject told him about his life, work, and his wide-ranging interests over the several-years-long course of Weschler’s labor on the profile and the development of a friendship that ended only with Sacks’ death ... Sacks was and is the quintessence of fascinating.
