Eula Biss

"Having just purchased her first home, the author embarks on a self-audit of the value system she has bought into. The essays in this volume offer an interrogation of work, leisure, and the lived experience of capitalism"--

Having and Being Had

A New York Times Best Seller A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist A New York Times Book Review Top 10 Book of the Year A Facebook "Year of Books" Selection One of the Best Books of the Year * National Book Critics Circle Award finalist * The New York Times Book Review (Top 10) * Entertainment Weekly (Top 10) * New York Magazine (Top 10)* Chicago Tribune (Top 10) * Publishers Weekly (Top 10) * Time Out New York (Top 10) * Los Angeles Times * Kirkus * Booklist * NPR's Science Friday * Newsday * Slate * Refinery 29 * And many more... Why do we fear vaccines? A provocative examination by Eula Biss, the author of Notes from No Man's Land, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award Upon becoming a new mother, Eula Biss addresses a chronic condition of fear-fear of the government, the medical establishment, and what is in your child's air, food, mattress, medicine, and vaccines. She finds that you cannot immunize your child, or yourself, from the world. In this bold, fascinating book, Biss investigates the metaphors and myths surrounding our conception of immunity and its implications for the individual and the social body. As she hears more and more fears about vaccines, Biss researches what they mean for her own child, her immediate community, America, and the world, both historically and in the present moment. She extends a conversation with other mothers to meditations on Voltaire's Candide, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, Susan Sontag's AIDS and Its Metaphors, and beyond. On Immunity is a moving account of how we are all interconnected-our bodies and our fates.

An Inoculation

On Immunity

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize A frank and fascinating exploration of race and racial identity Notes from No Man's Land: American Essays begins with a series of lynchings and ends with a series of apologies. Eula Biss explores race in America and her response to the topic is informed by the experiences chronicled in these essays -- teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting for an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and settling in Chicago's most diverse neighborhood. As Biss moves across the country from New York to California to the Midwest, her essays move across time from biblical Babylon to the freedman's schools of Reconstruction to a Jim Crow mining town to post-war white flight. She brings an eclectic education to the page, drawing variously on the Eagles, Laura Ingalls Wilder, James Baldwin, Alexander Graham Bell, Joan Didion, religious pamphlets, and reality television shows. These spare, sometimes lyric essays explore the legacy of race in America, artfully revealing in intimate detail how families, schools, and neighborhoods participate in preserving racial privilege. Faced with a disturbing past and an unsettling present, Biss still remains hopeful about the possibilities of American diversity, "not the sun-shininess of it, or the quota-making politics of it, but the real complexity of it."

American Essays

Notes from No Man's Land

Poetry. "Eula Biss writes in spare brushstrokes that evoke an emotional universe, by turns funny, scary, dreamlike, haunting. These prose poems are shards of gleaming observation, fragments of intimacy and illusion. Here we find our families and ourselves, our words and our silences"-Martin Espada. "With deceptively quiet, unflinching compassion, Eula Biss records the perceptual wedges that cleave the self from its origins. The family history refracted here is mutable, notable, more gravid than grave. THE BALLOONISTS holds a fresh line on confession, biography, and the formal uses of information in poetry"-Rebecca Wolff.

The Balloonists

The Pain Scale

Movimentos contra vacinação estão em alta. Com texto esclarecedor, sem deixar de ser pessoal, Imunidade traz o debate sobre imunização para um novo patamar. Eula Biss quase morreu no parto do seu primeiro filho. Confrontada com a fragilidade da vida, ela tornou-se obcecada com assuntos relacionados à saúde, em especial aqueles envolvendo o recém-nascido. Imunidade é o resultado dessa pesquisa, um livro pessoal e esclarecedor. Mistura de ensaio pessoal, história cultural e investigação científica, o livro – ao estilo de Susan Sontag e Andrew Solomon – une entretenimento, esclarecimento e qualidade literária.

Germes, vacinas e outros medos

Imunidade

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism Winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize Acclaimed for its frank and fascinating investigation of racial identity, and reissued on its ten-year anniversary, Notes from No Man’s Land begins with a series of lynchings, ends with a list of apologies, and in an unsettling new coda revisits a litany of murders that no one seems capable of solving. Eula Biss explores race in America through the experiences chronicled in these essays—teaching in a Harlem school on the morning of 9/11, reporting from an African American newspaper in San Diego, watching the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina from a college town in Iowa, and rereading Laura Ingalls Wilder in the Rogers Park neighborhood of Chicago. What she reveals is how families, schools, communities, and our country participate in preserving white privilege. Notes from No Man’s Land is an essential portrait of America that established Biss as one of the most distinctive and inventive essayists of our time.

Über das Impfen - von Zweifel, Angst und Verantwortung

Immun

Kleingeld, Haus und Saugroboter: Was macht das Haben mit dem Sein? „Ein furioser Rundumschlag durch Kapitalismus und Klasse.“ Maggie Nelson Es habe zwei Phasen in ihrem Leben gegeben, schreibt Eula Biss: die Phase vor und die nach dem Kauf einer eigenen Waschmaschine. Ausgehend von feinen Alltagsbeobachtungen und mit selbstironischem Humor stellt sie sich den großen konsumkritischen Fragen: Wie bestimmen Dinge unser Leben? Warum wollen wir immer mehr? Und was macht das Haben mit dem Sein? Eula Biss fragt, welchen Wert die Dinge wirklich für uns haben und wie unser Alltagsleben mit den großen Wirtschaftsphilosophien unserer Zeit zusammenhängt. So werden – persönlich, subtil und mit überraschenden Wendungen – alte Überzeugungen zu Kapitalismus, Besitz und Identität auf den Prüfstand gestellt.

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