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Living, Thinking, Looking
Living, Thinking, Looking Siri Hustvedt
A Picador Paperback Original
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June, 5th 2012
400 pages
Living, Thinking, Looking brings together thirty-two essays written between 2006 and 2011, in which the author culls insights from philosophy, neuroscience, psychology, psychoanalysis, and literature. Hustvedt’s unique synthesis of knowledge from many fields reinvigorates the much-needed dialogue between the humanities and the sciences as it deepens our understanding of an age-old riddle: What does it mean to be human?
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Featured Review: The Shaking Woman on Californica.net
Siri Hustvedt
The Shaking Woman, or a History of My Nerves, by Siri Hustvedt
by Jason Tougaw
Siri Hustvedt’s The Shaking Woman, or a History of My Nerves, is a genre-bending memoir that calls itself an essay and manages somehow to read like a mystery novel.
The mystery plot is driven by Hustvedt’s search for the roots of her body’s startling behavior: the sudden onset of a condition that caused her to convulse when she spoke in public (which she did often).
The first incident occurred at a memorial service for her father:
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http://californica.net/2011/10/14/the-shaking-woman-or-a-history-of-my-nerves-by-siri-hustvedt/
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