Loving Lawrence Weschler
October 11th, 2004Lawrence Weschler’s Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet Of Wonder: Pronged Ants, Horned Humans, Mice on Toast, and Other Marvels of Jurassic Technology is a classic of curiosity. Since his retirement from The New Yorker, Weschler has headed NYU’s Institute for the Humanities and also shopped around the prototype for Omnivore, a new magazine for which he is seeking funding. Omnivore is dedicated to “[t]he sort of experience where you get lost to yourself and given over to the marvel of all creation (indeed, to everything but yourself).”
Links:
- Omnivore’s prospectus
- Buy the prototype at the Museum for Jurassic Technology’s online shop
- Visit the MJT’s site
- A conversation with Weschler by Jim Ruland at The God Particle
- The Academy of Harvested Discourse, a blog inspired by Mr. Wilson’s Cabinet
October 11th, 2004 at 10:29 pm
Sounds cool. If I had an extra $25 to spend…
October 11th, 2004 at 10:49 pm
Yeah, I’ve decided not to buy the prototype. I’ll cross my fingers that the magazine actually gets off the ground, and then I can use that $25 towards a subscription!