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Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World

Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World

Update: 2024-05-10
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Andrew Leland is a major figure as a writer, editor, producer, teacher, and podcaster across the mainstream American cultural landscape. He has contributed to the New York Times Magazine, The New Yorker, The Believer, McSweeney’s, Radiolab, The Organist, and 99% Invisible among other respected sources, and has taught at prestigious universities. Amidst it all, he has been progressing towards blindness as a result of retinitis pigmentosa. As his sight diminished to the extent he needed assistance, Leland became motivated to investigate what the world would be for him when his sight was all but gone. In his book, The Country of the Blind, he reports his findings and conclusions. He shares this title with the H.G. Wells story he uses as a touchstone and through line. Cohosts Russell Teagarden and Dan Albrant talk about what can be drawn from Leland’s experiences and from the writers and artists he calls mentors, and how he expects his world will be the same when he is blind as it was before.


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Andrew Leland, The Country of the Blind, New York, Penguin Press, 2023. (The paperback edition will be available on July 23, 2024).


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Thanks to Andrew Leland for permission to use a clip from the audio edition of his book, The Country of the Blind.

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Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World

Andrew Leland’s Country of the Blind: It’s the Same World

J. Russell Teagarden & Daniel Albrant