Possible Futures Bookstore in New Haven, Conn., will be hosting an event with science journalist Sadie Dingfelder as she discusses her new book, Do I Know You?: A Faceblind Reporter's Journey into the Science of Sight, Memory, and Imagination. This memoir + popular science mashup covers Sadie’s late-in-life discovery that she is emphatically not neurotypical. Among her various conditions is aphantasia, which is an inability to visualize.

Sadie will be in conversation with Carl Zimmer, an award-winning New York Times columnist who played a key role in the discovery of aphantasia. Zimmer’s article about a man who lost the ability to visualize after a small stroke prompted hundreds of readers to write in and say that they’d never been able to see things in their mind’s eye -- and that they were frankly shocked to learn that other people could do this. In addition to opening up an entirely new field of research, Zimmer has written 15 books about science.

After their conversation, Sadie will be available to sign Do I Know You? and Carl will sign A Planet of Viruses and She Has Her Mother's Laugh!

More about the author:

Sadie Dingfelder is a freelance science journalist. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic, the Washington Post, and Connecticut Magazine. A former staff reporter at the Washington Post Express, Dingfelder also served as senior science writer at the Monitor on Psychology magazine, covering new findings in neuroscience, cognitive science, and ethology for members of the American Psychological Association.