Jeanne Marie Laskas est une écrivaine américaine dont l'œuvre explore souvent les complexités des liens humains et de la vie quotidienne. Ses essais et articles sont reconnus pour leur exploration perspicace d'histoires personnelles, trouvant des significations plus profondes dans des expériences apparemment ordinaires. En tant que professeure d'écriture créative, elle façonne activement le paysage de la littérature contemporaine en cultivant des voix émergentes. Le style narratif distinctif de Laskas invite les lecteurs à réfléchir sur le monde et leur place en son sein.
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