:: jeffmacintyre.com ::Jeffrey MacIntyre is a New York-based freelance journalist and interactive media specialist. His writing appears in publications such as the New York Times, Wired, Slate, Boston Globe and San Francisco Chronicle. He also consults in interactive content strategy for leading media companies.Oliver Sacks' 'Musicophilia': Music is Cure and Curse <br>San Francisco Chronicle- November 5, 2007 San Francisco Chronicle; November 2, 2007 Who is the most important person in your local hospital Seek - or, rather, listen - and ye shall find, according to Oliver Sacks. Leading a documentary crew through his Bronx psychiatric hospital posting in 1973, as the distinguished psychiatrist-author recalls in his new study, "Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain," the film's director declared, "Can I meet the music therapist She seems to be the most important person around here." Sacks has..http://www.jeffmacintyre.com/archives/2007/11/oliver_sacks_musicophilia_music_is_cure_and_... Q&A with Lewis Lapham Boston Globe- November 4, 2007 Boston Globe Ideas section, November 4, 2007 MACHIAVELLI PREDICTED THE Blackwater debacle. The Qing dynasty's homeland security experts knew Great Walls make for great neighbors. Riding the rails was safer in Joseph Conrad's, not today's, Congo. Few literary heavyweights cast their wit about like Lewis Lapham, 72, and fewer still are capable of publishing an independent historical journal that wears its anachronisms so gleefully. The journalism legend and erstwhile Harper's editor is...http://www.jeffmacintyre.com/archives/2007/11/qa_with_lewis_lapham_boston_globe.htm |