{"id":9194,"date":"2026-06-06T16:22:37","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/?p=9194"},"modified":"2026-06-06T16:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T16:22:38","slug":"ep25-insomniac-city-bill-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep25-insomniac-city-bill-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"EP#25: Insomniac City, Bill Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Insomniac City<\/em>\u00a0is by Bill Hayes, the partner of Oliver Sacks in his final 2-3 years. This is a book rather than a set of essays, but we are including it just to round out the coverage of OS. And, it should be noted, we have occasionally included other books-rather-than-essays such as OS&#8217;s lovely <em>A Leg to Stand On. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That said, I don&#8217;t have a lot to say about <em>Insomniac City<\/em>. It is an account of Hayes&#8217; arrival in and growing appreciation of NYC (as well as Hayes&#8217; photographs), with alternating chapters describing his relationship with OS. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hayes&#8217; accounts of NYC didn&#8217;t engage me. He has what feels to me like an overly romantic\/heroic view of NYC which doesn&#8217;t ring true to me, perhaps, though, because I&#8217;ve never lived there. I was much more positive about his accounts of his daily life with Sacks. It was nice to get a glimpse of Sacks through other eyes, and find that his eccentricities and charm persisted. I found it especially nice to see that Sacks, who had been alone most of his life, experienced a kind and loving relationship in his last few years. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading has-text-align-center\"> #  #  #<\/h1>\n<p>Views: 1<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Insomniac City\u00a0is by Bill Hayes, the partner of Oliver Sacks in his final 2-3 years. This is a book rather than a set of essays, but we are including it just to round out the coverage of OS. And, it should be noted, we have occasionally included other books-rather-than-essays such as OS&#8217;s lovely A Leg &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/2026\/06\/06\/ep25-insomniac-city-bill-hayes\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">EP#25: Insomniac City, Bill Hayes<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-oliver-sacks","category-the-essays-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9196,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9194\/revisions\/9196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tomeri.org\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}