I have tried to avoid these stories of Oliver Sacks’s stories for a while - I can’t deny that I feel his books are ruined for me now (and not long after I found out that Anne Sexton sexually abused her daughter - old news I know, but has changed her poetry for me)
https://boingboing.net/2025/12/12/oliver-sacks-fabricated-key-details-in-his-books.html
Robin Ince
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