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Andrew Leland

Andrew Leland
Andrew Leland’s writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, McSweeney’s Quarterly, and The San Francisco Chronicle, among other outlets. From 2013-2019, he hosted and produced The Organist, an arts and culture podcast, for KCRW; he has also produced pieces for Radiolab and 99 Percent Invisible. He has been an editor at The Believer since 2003. He lives in western Massachusetts with his wife and son.
www.andrewleland.org/
Activism

Andrew Leland in Conversation about The Country of the Blind

For some blind people, a white cane must be brandished with pride, never folded or disguised

October 23, 2023 • by Andrew Leland and Mitchell Abidor
In The Country of the Blind, Leland describes his experiences among the blind, including a course in which he artificially lives in the total blindness that will one day be his. ...

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