The Closing of the American Book by Andrew Solomon

In the "Closed American Book" published in the New York Times magazine, Andrew Solomon discusses how the decline of reading of literature came to the crisis of public health, politics and education. Solomon combined the decline of reading with the rise of electronic media. If he sits in front of a computer or video screen rather than reading, watching television, I think that the brain shuts down and leads to loneliness and melancholy. He also argued that as the reading speed declined, absolute "terror" weapons no longer existed, leading to failure of the United States in these wars.

56 Andrew Solomon's noon devil. This is one of my favorite books - Solomon is suffering from depression, like Kaijamisen, and explains his mental distress as only a talented writer can do it. Solomon 's father was an executive at a pharmaceutical company that developed early antidepressants, and Solomon wrote about the importance of medicine among many other writers. I need to read it. Jack Cohenfield's 57 Wise Heart. Interestingly, many American Buddhists are Jews - proving the openness of this belief), Cohenfield believes that ordinary people are the world's oldest and deepest religious It helps to understand one important principle. . Buddhism is not a true religion; it is a lifestyle and thinking framework that has incredible profits for the brain and human relations.

Andrew Solomon is a writer, lecturer, and professor of clinical psychology at Columbia University. Solomon's latest work "Distant Tree: Seeking Parents, Children, and Identity" was awarded the non-fiction National Critic Award and was named one of the "Top Ten Books" of the New York Times in 2012 It was. The book before Solomon, Noonday Demon: The Depression Atlas, was a recipient of the non-fiction national award, included in the Pulitzer Prize. He is a member of the Department of Depression at University of Michigan and Director of Columbia Psychiatry, a member of the Visit Committee at the Columbia University Medical Center, the National Advisory Council of the University of Michigan Depression Center and the Advisory Committee of the Great Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance. In 2011, he was appointed a special advisor to lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender mental health at Yale University psychiatry department.

I found a copy of this book at the local library (note: if you do not think that this library is an important foundation of a prosperous society, you need to read this article). Before this book was published I have never heard of Andrew Solomon, but the cover has information from my past. From the moment I read the first paragraph, I was fascinated by insight into his unique human condition. "There is no such thing as copying, etc. When they decide to live.When they are children, they engage in production behavior, and the term copy is widely used to carry out this activity It is used ... ... This is usually not something we want to live forever and is not anyone else who has our own personality ... My parents suddenly brought us to a stranger I will make a relationship. "