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Guggenheim Fellowship
David has been named a 2011 John Simon Guggenheim Fellow. He will use the fellowship opportunity to pursue the genetics and neuroimaging of synesthesia.

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News 

  • In 2012, Sum will be turned into an opera at the Royal Opera House in London. Max Richter is the composer and Wayne MacGregor is the director.  Stay tuned for updates. 
  • Film rights for Sum have been acquired by Warp Films in the UK.
  • Sum was named the "Best Book of 2009" by Chicago Tribune's Pulitzer prize winning literary critic Julia Keller.
  • Sum was selected as one of the Best Books of 2009 by Barnes and Noble.
  • In September, 2009, Sum became the #2 book in the United Kingdom on Amazon's bestseller list.
  • In June, 2009, David Eagleman and Brian Eno performed a musical reading of Sum to 1,000 people at the Sydney Opera House.
  • In November, 2009, David Eagleman joined with writer Philip Pullman, actress Miranda Richardson, and rocker Jarvis Cocker to read Sum to a sold-out crowd at Queen Elizabeth Hall.  The performance also included pre-recorded readings of Sum stories from Stephen Fry, Nick Cave, and Clarke Peters.

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Radio

Listen to David discussing Sum on NPR's Talk of the Nation or On Point, BBC Radio Four's Front Row, or Australian Broadcasting Corporation's Late Night Live or All in the Mind.

Listen to David discussing Sum -- and actor Jeffrey Tambor reading stories from the book -- on WNYC's Radiolab.