The New Social Environment#37
Steve Silberman with Raymond Foye
Featuring Silberman and Foye
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Writer Steve Silberman joins Rail Consulting Editor Raymond Foye for a conversation.
In this talk
Steve Silberman
Steve Silberman is an award-winning science writer and the author of The New York Times best-selling NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity, which unearths the secret history of autism. Among many other major awards, the book received the Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction—the first popular science book to win the prize in its 17-year history—and is now translated into 16 languages. Silberman’s articles on science, music, art, and culture have appeared in Wired, The New Yorker, The MIT Technology Review,_ and many other publications. As a young man, Silberman worked as a teaching assistant to poet Allen Ginsberg. He also coproduced the Grateful Dead’s box set So Many Roads (1965-1995), which was Rolling Stone’s Box Set of the Year.
Raymond Foye
Writer, curator, editor, and publisher Raymond Foye is based in New York City. He is a Consulting Editor of the Brooklyn Rail, and a regular contributor to the Gagosian Quarterly. From 1986-96 he was the editor and publisher (with Francesco Clemente) of Hanuman Books. From 1990-95 he worked as director of exhibitions and publications at Gagosian Gallery in New York. He received the American Book Award for The Collected Poems of Bob Kaufman (co-edited with Tate Swindell), and he recently co-edited (with George Scrivani) The Golden Dot: Last Poems 1997-2000 by Gregory Corso (Lithic Press, 2022). He represents the Estate of Jordan Belson.
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