Kathryn Schulz

The bestselling history of and investigation into human error by beloved New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz“Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it.”—Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetIn the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational, Being Wrong explores what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz argues that error is the fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.

Eighteen months before Kathryn Schulz's father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the story of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of the role that loss and discovery play in all of our lives. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to living in a world that is simultaneously full of wonder and joy and wretchedness and suffering--a world that always demands both our gratitude and our grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Lost & Found is an enduring account of love in all its many forms from one of the great writers of our time.

A collection of the year’s best essays, selected by award-winning journalist and New Yorker staff writer Kathryn Schulz“The world is abundant even in bad times,” guest editor Kathryn Schulz writes in her introduction, “it is lush with interestingness, and always, somewhere, offering up consolation or beauty or humor or happiness, or at least the hope of future happiness.” The essays Schulz selected are a powerful time capsule of 2020, showcasing that even if our lives as we knew them stopped, the beauty to be found in them flourished. From an intimate account of nursing a loved one in the early days of the pandemic, to a masterful portrait of grieving the loss of a husband as the country grieved the loss of George Floyd, this collection brilliantly shapes the grief, hardship, and hope of a singular year.The Trayvon generation / Elizabeth Alexander, from The New Yorker --Homecoming / Hilton Als, from The New Yorker --The broken country / Molly McCully Brown, from Virginia Quarterly Review --Acceptance parenting / Agnes Callard, from The Point --The kitchen is closed / Gabrielle Hamilton, from The New York Times Magazine --Bent arrows: on anticipation of my approaching disappearance / Tony Hoagland, from Ploughshares --Vicious cycles / Greg Jackson, from Harper's Magazine --Clarity / Ruchir Joshi, from Granta --Oh Latitudo / Amy Leach, from Granta --Insane after coronavirus? / Patricia Lockwood, from London Review of Books --Love in a time of terror / Barry Lopez. from Literary Hub --What I learned when my husband got sick with coronavirus / Jessica Lustig, from The New York Times Magazine --What money can't buy / Dawn Lundy Martin, from Ploughshares --Two women / Claire Messud, from A Public Space --My mustache / Wesley Morris, from The New Yorker Magazine --Apparent / Beth Nguyen, from The Paris Review --The designated mourner, from The New York Review of Books --Going postal / Max Read, from Bookforusm --In orbit / Dariel Suarez, from The Threepenny Review --Witness and respair, from The Vanity Fair

Una fascinante investigación que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades actuales frente a los desastres naturales.La falla geológica de San Andrés, que recorre de norte a sur el estado de California, es una de las más estudiadas del planeta y la más temida en Estados Unidos. Pero un poco más hacia el norte existe otra falla, la zona de subducción de Cascadia, mucho menos conocida pero capaz de provocar terremotos todavía más devastadores.El gran terremoto es un reportaje que causó un enorme revuelo cuando se publicó en 2015 en The New Yorker y que fue galardonado con el premio Pulitzer. Schulz convierte la historia del descubrimiento de esta falla y de su potencial destructor en una apasionante investigación que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades actuales frente a los desastres naturales.«Una elegante narración de divulgación científica sobre la ruptura de la falla de Cascadia, una obra maestra del periodismo y la literatura medioambiental.» Jurado del premio Pulitzer«Sus reconstrucciones del terremoto de Japón de 2011 y del que podría producirse en los estados de Washington y Oregón nos impactan tanto como las mejores obras de ficción.» The New Yorker