Website collecting the writing of this prolific, incisive fellow-traveller who has been publishing in Wired recently but whose output I have been following since the days of his associations with the Grateful Dead and Allen Ginsberg. In the past few years, he had the privilege of an extended interview with the reclusive inspired neurologist Oliver Sacks (I linked here to his resulting portrait of Sacks in Wired) his research for which led Silberman, made curious about the comment made by a waggish admirer of FmH who called me ‘the Oliver Sacks of weblogging’, to my site here.

Responding to my link below to a piece about the sculptural works of a profoundly mentally handicapped woman surely unaware she is ‘making art’, Steve wrote to say he is working on a piece about jazz pianist Matt Savage, an 11-year-old ‘musical savant’ with an autistic-spectrum disorder — “an in-depth examination of what the brains of rare prodigies like Savage tell us about the biological nature of intelligence and creativity…” Autistic phenomena have been another of Steve’s interests (as it is one of mine), I glean, dating at least from the acclaimed piece he wrote (again in Wired) in December, 2001 (and, again, to which I linked here at the time) on the ‘geek syndrome’, about the connection between autistic traits and technology. The term ‘geek syndrome’, coined as a headline for his story, has become lingua franca for this association. You FmH’ers are among the ‘relentlessly curious’ for whose benefit he posts a slew of links to some of his older writings; dig in.

Addendum: Ironically, as I finish the above, I am pointed to another piece by Silberman about an experience, again bearing a resonance to something I post here, whose potency leaves him concluding that “talking about things I had or had not written seemed ridiculous, like gossiping in front of a mountain.”