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Bill Hayes

  1. Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me Bill Hayes ““The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time.” ~ Oliver Sacks” Bill Hayes’s beautiful love letter to New York,...

    Insomniac City: New York, Oliver, and Me

    Bill Hayes

    “The most we can do is to write — intelligently, creatively, evocatively — about what it is like living in the world at this time.” ~ Oliver Sacks

    Bill Hayes’s beautiful love letter to New York, Oliver Sacks, and love itself:

  2. Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir Bill Hayes ““Sleep acts … more like an emotion than a bodily function. As with desire, it resists pursuit. Sleep must come find you.”” Fascinating read on the science of REM sleep, the poetics of sleeplessness, and...

    Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir

    Bill Hayes

    “Sleep acts … more like an emotion than a bodily function. As with desire, it resists pursuit. Sleep must come find you.”

    Fascinating read on the science of REM sleep, the poetics of sleeplessness, and Maurice Sendak’s antidote to insomnia: