Andrew Leland

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight (@PenguinPress, 2024 Pulitzer Prize finalist). https://t.co/nNzO09cMen 🧑🏻‍🦯 he/him

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Vile Jelly

2 months ago | vilejelly.substack.com | Andrew Leland

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How MAGA Scrambled Disability Politics

2 months ago | truthdig.com | Andrew Leland

At the height of the civil rights movement, Bob Dole, then a freshman Republican senator from Kansas, gave his first address to Congress and the newly elected President Richard Nixon. Dole had been stationed in Italy during WWII; in the spring of 1945, he was struck by enemy fire and sustained injuries that would limit his mobility for the rest of his life.
These Blind Travelers See the World in Ways Beyond the Visual

Mar 6, 2025 | travelandleisure.com | Andrew Leland

For blind travelers, the world reveals itself in ways that go far beyond the visual. Photo: Illustration by Vicki Ling In 2018, Edith Lemay and Sébastien Pelletier learned that three of their four children were losing their vision because of retinitis pigmentosa (RP), a progressive, incurable retinal disease.
THE COUNTRY OF THE BLIND

Mar 10, 2024 | audiofilemagazine.com | Andrew Leland

With a steady narration, Andrew Leland shares how he copes with the onset of blindness, caused by progressive retinitis pigmentosa (RP). Dispassionately and eloquently, he describes himself as being at the border between the country of the blind and the land of the sighted. He sees this spot as a unique vantage point for curiosity and thought and is convincing in his point of view.
A Year in Reading: Andrew Leland

Dec 12, 2023 | themillions.com | Andrew Leland

A Year in Reading: Andrew Leland For all its famous compatibility with solitude, reading remains a deeply social act; becoming a writer can expand this convivial, networked aspect of reading. This feeling grew in me at the end of 2022, when I was finishing the editorial process on my first book and beginning the hypersocial process of promoting it. I interviewed Namwali Serpell about her incredible novel The Furrows at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass.
A Year in Reading: Andrew Leland

Dec 11, 2023 | everand.com | Andrew Leland

For all its famous compatibility with solitude, reading remains a deeply social act; becoming a writer can expand this convivial, networked aspect of reading. This feeling grew in me at the end of 2022, when I was finishing the editorial process on my first book and beginning the hypersocial process of promoting it. I interviewed Namwali Serpell about her incredible novel at Odyssey Bookshop in South Hadley, Mass.
2023 Books - Year-End Lists

Oct 31, 2023 | yearendlists.com | Catherine Lacey |Andrew Leland |Scott Shane |Benjamin Labatut

Publishers Weekly: 10 Best Books of 2023 [see also 2022 • 2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011] Kirkus Prize: Fiction 2023 [see also Nonfiction 2023 • Nonfiction 2022 • Fiction 2022 • Nonfiction 2021 • Fiction 2021 • Nonfiction 2020 • Fiction 2020 • Nonfiction 2019 • Fiction 2019 • Nonfiction 2018 • Fiction 2018 • Nonfiction 2017 • Fiction 2017 • Nonfiction 2016 • Fiction 2016 • Nonfiction 2015 • Fiction 2015 • Nonfiction 2014 • Fiction 2014] Kirkus...
Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, by By Andrew Leland. | Booklist Online

Oct 30, 2023 | booklistonline.com | Andrew Leland

July 2023. 368p. Penguin, $29 (9781984881427 ); e-book (9781984881434 ). 362.4. REVIEW. First published October 31, 2023 (Booklist Online). In this thought-provoking memoir, the grandson of the famed playwright and screenwriter Neil Simon describes what it’s like to lose his eyesight. More than two decades ago, Leland learned he would go blind from an incurable condition called retinitis pigmentosa.
Your Essential Texas Book Festival Reading List

Oct 30, 2023 | tribeza.com | Jillian Anthony |Andrew Leland |Brendan Slocumb |Hector Tobar

Bookworms, this is your time. The Texas Book Festival (TBF) returns to Austin on November 11 and 12 with a lineup of more than 300 genre-spanning authors, about 40% of whom are Texas residents. Make your way downtown to catch free conversations and book signings with authors such as Steve Inskeep, Angie Kim, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, Ann Patchett, Ingrid Rojas Contreras, Jacqueline Woodson, and hundreds of authors.
Andrew Leland in Conversation about The Country of the Blind

Oct 23, 2023 | publicseminar.org | Andrew Leland |Mitchell Abidor

Photograph of a semi-dismantled white cane on a black background. Credit: Sarah Chester 2007 / Wikimedia CommonsTwenty years ago, Andrew Leland was diagnosed with Retinitis Pigmentosa (RP). A degenerative eye disease, RP leads slowly and inexorably to total blindness. Leland’s new book, The Country of the Blind, is not only an account of the progress of his blindness, but also an exploration of the meaning of blindness—how he lives with it, and how others live with it.