Attention: A Personal History of Finding Focus (or Trying To)

"A rich inquiry into what it means to pay (and maintain) attention in a world increasingly permeated with distraction and interference.” — Publisher’s Weekly Combining expert storytelling with genuine self-scrutiny, Casey Schwartz details the decade she spend taking Adderall to help her pay attention (or so she thought) and then considers the role of attention in defining our lives as it has been understood by thinkers such as William James, David Foster Wallace, and Simone Weil. From our cravin