Inside-Out - Jonah Lehrer on the science of inspiration: Long-form writing at The New Yorker.
Jonah Lehrer, the editor at large at Seed magazine, is the author of Proust was a Neuroscientist and a new book, How We Decide, that is based in part on an article he wrote recently for The New Yorker. In addition to The New Yorker, he has written for Nature, Wired, The Washington Post and The Boston Globe. He is also a contributing editor at Scientific American Mind and National Public Radio's Radio Lab. A Columbia graduate, he also studied at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. The New York Times called Proust was a Neuroscientist "a precocious and engaging book that tries to mend the century-old tear between the literary and scientific cultures."
His talk is part of the SHERP program's three-year-old Inside-Out speaker series, moderated by Robert Lee Hotz, science columnist with The Wall Street Journal and a distinguished writer in residence at NYU's Arthur L. Carter Journalism Institute.
- WHAT: Discussion with Jonah Lehrer, author and magazine freelancer.
- WHEN: Monday, April 20, 6:00 p.m.
- WHERE: 7th Floor Commons, 20 Cooper Square
