author : Lawrence Weschlerfacebook : https://www.facebook.com/LawrenceWeschlerLawrence Weschler, a longtime veteran of the New Yorker magazine and a regular contributor to NPR, is the director emeritus of the New York Institute of the Humanities at NYU, and the author of nearly twenty books, including Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees, Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet of Wonder,Everything That Rises, and Vermeer in Bosnia.