Andrew Leland
I'm the author of The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight, which was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in memoir and named a best book of the year by the New Yorker, the Washington Post, the Atlantic, NPR, and others. I've contributed to the New Yorker, New York, the New York Times Magazine, and other publications with New York in their names. I'm a contributing editor of the Believer magazine and I used to make the Organist podcast. I've also contributed audio journalism to Radiolab and 99 Percent Invisible. Right now I'm the Koeppel Fellow in Journalism at Wesleyan University.
Oct. 28, 2025
Seeing Beyond Sight: Andrew Leland's Journey Through Blindness
Andrew Leland joins us to converse about the world of blindness and the profound journey he's been on while navigating his own retinal degeneration. His book, "The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight," isn't just an exploration of what it means to lose one’s vision; it's a candid loo…