The Climate of Feeling: A Conversation with Elvia Wilk
Elvia Wilk discusses her debut novel, OVAL.
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Posts Tagged: apathy
Jonathan Safran Foer on the Sociopsychological Effects of Technology
In an opinion piece for the New York Times, Jonathan Safran Foer (award-winning author of Everything is Illuminated and Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close) contemplates the implications of living in a society full of “iDistractions,” arguing that the increased daily use of new technology might be limiting our capacity for empathy and compassion. He argues that […]
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The founding editor of Bookslut offers an eclectic selection of books that might help us confront our own deeply American sense of political alienation. One of them I especially want to read: Avoiding Politics: How Americans Produce Apathy in Everyday Life by Nina Eliasoph, a book title that speaks to the person inside of me […]
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