Jeanne Marie Laskas è una scrittrice americana il cui lavoro si addentra spesso nelle complessità delle connessioni umane e della vita quotidiana. I suoi saggi e articoli sono noti per la loro acuta esplorazione di storie personali, trovando significati più profondi in esperienze apparentemente ordinarie. Come professoressa di scrittura creativa, plasma attivamente il panorama della letteratura contemporanea coltivando voci emergenti. Lo stile narrativo distintivo di Laskas invita i lettori a riflettere sul mondo e sul loro posto in esso.
President Barack Obama received ten thousand letters a day from his constituents. This is the story of the private and profound relationship with letter writers that shaped his presidency. Their voices combine to reveal a diary of a nation. Every evening for eight years, at his request,... číst celé
In 2002, forensic pathologist Dr. Bennet Omalu picked up a scalpel in a Pittsburgh morgue and made a discovery that would rattle America. The body on the slab in front of him belonged to a fifty-year-old named Mike Webster, aka "Iron Mike," a Hall of Fame center for the Pittsburgh Steelers. After retiring in 1990, Webster had suffered a dizzyingly steep decline. The search for answers put Omalu in the crosshairs of one of the most powerful corporations in America: the National Football League. Iron Mike's mental deterioration was caused by blows to the head that could affect everyone playing the game -- the one truth the NFL wanted to ignore