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Weschler Reading Write-Up
Lawrence Weschler is touring for a couple of books a reprint of his first book, Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, and his new book on the artist David Hockney (and Robert Irwin), True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney.
He was recently at Seattle’s Elliot Bay Books, the The Stranger has a write-up, wherein it is learned:
2. Hockney does read Weschler, and though Hockney and Irwin disagree on everything, Hockney even reads what Weschler writes about Irwin. Irwin neither respects the time that Weschler spends thinking about Hockney nor reads what Weschler writes about Hockney.
3. Weschler has three new books out, not two. The third is the new Tara Donovan monograph. Donovan is the eighth artist to win the MacArthur genius grant within six months of Weschler writing about him or her.
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