Winifred Gallagher
In conversation with Irene Borger, Director, Alpert Award in the Arts
Can we train our focus? What's different about the way creative people pay attention? An acclaimed behavioral science writer makes the radical argument that the quality of your life largely depends on what you choose to pay attention to and how you choose to do it.
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Winifred Gallagher's books include House Thinking, Just the Way You Are (a New York Times Notable Book), Working on God, and The Power of Place. She has written for numerous publications, such as Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, and the New York Times. She lives in Manhattan and Dubois, Wyoming.
Irene Borger is a writer, teacher and director of the Alpert Award in the Arts. The former artist-in-residence at AIDS Project Los Angeles, and member of the faculty at University of California, Riverside, she has led writing workshops, devoted to witnessing and not-knowing, for art makers, and people living under conditions of extremity since 1990. Published in numerous national magazines and newspapers, she is the editor of From a Burning House and The Force of Curiosity. A long time meditation student, she is writing a book on listening.
Unless otherwise indicated, ALOUD programs take place at the Los Angeles Central Library's Mark Taper Auditorium, 630 W. Fifth Street, Los Angeles, CA 90071.
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