This week I discuss Catching the Big Fish (by David Lynch) with Kevin Allison (RISK!; MTV's The State, and Reno 911).
In our interview we chat about the book, as well as: finding creativity, Transcendental Meditation, self-help books, and Kevin's exploration into the world of erotic hypnosis workshops.
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In The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, Oliver Sacks tells 24 short-stories (all true) of some of his patients. The first chapter chronicles the story of one of Sacks' patients with visual agnosia (face-blindness) who literally mistakes his wife for a hat.
The book is split into four sections: each section dealing with a particular aspect of brain function such as deficits, excesses, and altered perceptions.
In this episode of On books we cover three Oliver Sacks books: Awakenings, "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" (the story), Musicophilia. As well as an interview with Princeton University Neuroscience Professor Nathaniel Daw.
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