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June 17, 2020 33 mins

A staff writer for the New Yorker for 20 years, Weschler has won the prestigious George Polk award in Journalism - twice. His books of political reportage include The Passion of Poland (1984); about the Solidaity revolution; and A Miracle, A Universe: Settling Accounts with Torturers (1990) which examines how fledgling democracies in countries such as south Africa, Uruguay, Cambodia and Bosnia reconciled with their previously toxic security apparatuses. More recently Weschler published an update to his book "Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" about his work with and insights on the godfather of the light and space movement, Robert Irwin.  Weschler also offers a glimpse at his upcoming book centered on the provocative tableau 5 Car Stud by Ed Keinholz.

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