Insomniac City : : New York, Oliver, and me

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Insomniac City -- On being not dead -- How New York breaks your heart.
A "celebration of what [writer and photographer] Bill Hayes calls 'the evanescent, the eavesdropped, the unexpected' of life in New York City, and an intimate glimpse of his relationship with the late [neurologist] Oliver Sacks"--Amazon.com.

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Falling love after all submitted by ccrose on August 9, 2019, 3:23pm Oliver Sacks wrote many books, humanizing the quirks of the human brain by implanting the medical aspects into stories of real people he treated. Like “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat.” I heard him speak once and he was, he said, terribly shy. It was painful to watch if anyone got to him to shake his hand. I admired all he did to bring the human back into medical care.
He died a few years back. And in the few years beforehand, he began ever so carefully to say”I’m gay.” He had kept that a tight secret, in fact didn’t have anyone in his life for thirty five years then, he fell in love.
This book is written by the man he fell in love with and had seven years of a richer life.