John Burnham Schwartz

That gift we are squandering.

I'm John Burnham Schwartz, literary director of the Sun Valley Writers Conference, and this is Beyond the Page.

Michael Pollan has spent 40 years teaching us to look more carefully at what's right in front of and behind our eyes.

In A World Appears, Michael turns toward consciousness itself, the thing we know more intimately than anything in the universe and understand less.

A good one, we hope.

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Until next time.