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Attended a discussion with Jonah Lehrer this evening as part of the Aloud series at the Central Library in Downtown LA. Really an excellent event. His new book, Imagine, is a very good summary of recent thought on the subject of "creativity." I highly recommend it.
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I love Lehrer. I'm ordering his new book as well. How fortunate that you got to hear him speak. I can't wait to read his book.

Did you read "Marcel Proust Was A Neuroscientist"? I actually haven't yet. It will have to go on my reading list as well.

He is one of the few writers I know who is steeped in science and has a profound respect for the arts, for literature. Outstanding mind.

Thanks for posting this.

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Hi--

I'm so glad to have a chance to make a plug for Proust Was a Neuroscientist, one of my all-time favorite books. It has weak spots, but it is often brilliant, and as you read it, you can feel distant territories of your brain starting to speak to each other!

I will try Imagine.

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Jean
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Yes. I was impressed with the Proust book as well. I emailed the author with a question after the lecture/discussion and have already received a reply. How cool is that!!!!!!
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Hi there,

Ah, I'm so sorry I missed this! I wanted to go to that event, actually, but even when I got the ALOUD series by e-mail, it was already full! Did you go on stand-by? WAS it full?

In fact, I don't know Jonah Lehrer's work at all, but it sounds fascinating. Thanks for the recs., Jean, Don and ...sericmarr (?).

All best,
Charlotte
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Well, I just started the Proust book. It's entertaining, in a Malcolm Gladwell sort of way, but superficial in the same way and not quite as well written. The Whitman chapter offers nothing new to anyone at all familiar with Whitman, pretty much just rehashing a lot of familiar stuff. I didn't even get his point about George Eliot. And that's as far as I've gotten.
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A review of JL's book by Jim Murdoch.

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