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Diane Ackerman's Books
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An Alchemy of MindDoes the mind reflect or dictate what the body sees and feels? What is the language of emotion? Is memory a function of our imaginations? Are we all...Read More
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Psychology Today, May 17, 2012
...The title of Diane Ackerman’s latest memoir draws on the pet names her husband Paul had for her before he suffered from a stroke and had to relearn how to speak. Diane sparked...
Chronicle of Higher Education, May 10, 2012
...away from the Gothic, and on the list for enlightenment I have One Hundred Names for Love by Diane Ackerman, as well as Looking for Alaska by John Green and Bird of Paradise Diana Abu-Jaber’s come highly recommended by friends and students; they are...
Syracuse Online, April 29, 2012
...educated here and suffered their first rejection slips here. Why not a trail for our literary stars? From Diane Ackerman to Thomas Szasz, the possibilities are endless. We can't visit them all. But here's a trail of literary touchstones worth touching....
Washington Post, April 24, 2012
...fascinating examination of a grieving Americas relationship with itself.In One Hundred Names for Love (Norton, $15.95), Diane Ackerman writes about the aftermath of a stroke that left her husband, the writer Paul West, unable to process language. At once...
Boston Globe, April 17, 2012
...Gander, Core Samples from the World Ron Padgett, How Long Tracy K. Smith, Life on Mars General Nonfiction Diane Ackerman, One Hundred Names For Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing Stephen Greenblatt, The Swerve: How the World Became...
Huffington Post, April 12, 2012
...Author Diane Ackerman was on a book tour promoting "An Alchemy of Mind: The Marvel and Mystery of the Brain" when her husband, Paul West, suffered a massive stroke that radically combusted...
San Francisco Chronicle, April 5, 2012
...been expressed differently. Annual tuition for USF undergrads right now is $37,040. In Oakland, writer and poet Diane Ackerman was the keynote speaker at Sunday's 15th anniversary celebration for the Aphasia Center of California. Aphasia is the loss or...
Marblehead Patch, March 2, 2012
...just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well ." - Diane Ackerman There were so many “Carpe Diem” kind of quotes I had to choose from this week. Time and what we do with it was on my mind, and when...
Cleveland Live, February 27, 2012
...the virtues of bats as insect eaters. Board chairman Ron Fountain chimed in: "Anybody who cares should read Diane Ackerman's book 'The Moon by Whale Light.' The first chapter is about bats. You read that chapter, you will feel forever different about...
Austin American Statesman, February 25, 2012
...Los Angeles Times, have questioned his pieces on Michael Jackson and Axl Rose, saying they feel "off-balance, undercooked." Diane Ackerman, "One Hundred Names for Love: A Stroke, a Marriage, and the Language of Healing." Ackerman's "A Natural History of...
ArticlesBase, February 23, 2012
...After the speech, we hung around chatting about busy-ness and overwhelm and how it creeps into our lives. Busy-ness seems to be everywhere! Today, the pace of life seems faster: we all have so much to do, 'plates to spin' and so many roles to play....
Smithsonian Magazine, February 23, 2012
...Optical Illusion). In fact, this whole issue is devoted to the tricky theme of perception. On page 20, Diane Ackerman, the award-winning poet and essayist and author of A Natural History of the Senses, kicks off our new front-of-the-book section, which...
Smithsonian Magazine, February 23, 2012
...of the Senses visits Florida's Morikami Japanese Gardens to examine the astonishing wealth of human perception By Diane Ackerman By Laura Helmuth and Sarah Zielinski Hey, snollygosters: After half a century of studying jib-jabbing, linguists have just...
Smithsonian Magazine, February 23, 2012
...Diane Ackerman is a poet, essayist and naturalist whose work combines science and art in its appreciation of the natural world. Her recent memoir, The Zookeeper’s Wife, received the Orion...
