Lawrence Weschler, a staff writer at the New Yorker for over twenty years, is the director of the New York Institute for the Humanities at NYU. He is the author of Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Thirty Years of Conversations with Contemporary Artist Robert Irwin (a newly revised edition), True to Life: Twenty Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney, and Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder and Everything That Rises: A Book of Convergences.