Jeanne Marie Laskas es una escritora estadounidense cuyo trabajo a menudo profundiza en las complejidades de la conexión humana y la vida cotidiana. Sus ensayos y reportajes son conocidos por su perspicaz exploración de historias personales, encontrando significados más profundos en experiencias aparentemente ordinarias. Como profesora de escritura creativa, da forma activamente al panorama de la literatura contemporánea nutriendo voces emergentes. El distintivo estilo narrativo de Laskas invita a los lectores a reflexionar sobre el mundo y su lugar en él.
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