Stolen Focus in the Bookshop

Stolen Focus Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari

"The more novels you read, the better you were at reading other people’s emotions. It was a huge effect. This wasn’t just a sign that you were better educated—because reading nonfiction books, by contrast, had no effect on your empathy." - Johann Hari, Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention—and How to Think Deeply Again

 

The Good Immigrant in the Bookshop

The Good Immigrant by Nikesh Shukla

"When forced to leave my house for an extended period of time, I take my typewriter with me, and together we endure the wretchedness of passing through the X-ray scanner." - David Sedaris