In a culture that is increasingly visual and virtual in orientation, what role does old-fashioned reading play? Author and essayist Wendy Lesser discusses her latest book Why I Read with poet Robert Pinsky. Their conversation explores the ways that literature and, especially, poetry touch readers and change their lives as Cambridge Forum continues its series My Life Touched by Art. What power does the written word have in our lives?
This program is part of the series My Life Touched by Art, supported by a grant from the Cambridge Arts Council and the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a public agency.
Science
Musicophilia
The late essayist-physician Oliver Sacks memorably reflected at Cambridge Forum on music and its mysterious relationship to the brain.
Arts
Stolen Art
Art security expert Anthony Amore discusses the crime of art theft. Art conservator Ingrid Neuman joins the conversation to explore the threat that theft poses to the physical materials that artworks are made from.
Work
Why Doctors Write
Beacon Press director Helene Atwan explores the relationship between editor and author with Danielle Ofri, a practicing physician and the editor of the Bellevue Literary Review, a literary journal focused on illness, health, and healing.