Casey Schwartz

New York, Texas

Author of Attention, A Love Story and In the Mind Fields at Freelance

Journalist at The New York Times

Author of Attention: A Love Story and In the Mind Fields (Pantheon). Words in @nytimes and other places.

Articles

Once More, Without Feeling

1 month ago | theamericanscholar.org | Casey Schwartz |Joe Dunthorne

Children of Radium: A Buried Inheritance by Joe Dunthorne; Scribner, 240 pp., $28.99We have entered the era of the third- and even fourth-generation World War II memoir. It comes with its own distinguishing features: these grandchildren and great-grandchildren must write not from memory but from investigation, sometimes as dispassionately as if they were outsiders to their own families.
La era de la distracción: cada vez cuesta más prestar y recibir atención, pero la pedimos mucho

2 months ago | infobae.com | Casey Schwartz

La atención es el eje definitivo de un sujeto que se despliega en una amplia gama de ámbitos y tiene una infinidad de preocupaciones. Esto se debe a que dar y recibir atención está en el centro mismo de quiénes somos y cómo vivimos. La atención no es simplemente un músculo cognitivo que ayuda a determinar cómo nos va en la escuela o cómo funcionamos en una oficina.
Chris Hayes and Nicholas Carr sound the alarm about our attention span

2 months ago | washingtonpost.com | Casey Schwartz

Attention is the ultimate accordion of a subject, unfolding into a broad array of realms, touching on an infinity of concerns. This is because the giving and getting of attention is at the very center of who we are and how we live. Attention is not merely a cognitive muscle that helps determine how we do at school or how we function in an office.
Joan Didion Remains as Elusive as Ever. These Books Want to Fix That.

Oct 26, 2024 | nytimes.com | Casey Schwartz

It's still bright afternoon when the writer Lili Anolik slips into the dim recesses of the Odeon restaurant. Here, at New York's timeless destination for downtown cool, she prefers to sit in the same place every time, a small booth by the host's stand. Anolik orders an Earl Grey tea but furtively sips from a Pepsi she pulls from her purse. On the table: galleys of her new book, "Didion and Babitz," out in November.
Review | A major new biography of the literary great Christopher Isherwood

Aug 28, 2024 | washingtonpost.com | Casey Schwartz

Christopher Isherwood in his London apartment, circa 1969. Katherine Bucknell, the author of a major new biography of the writer, said: “There were so many secrets around sexuality that have kind of gone away. I had a chance to write a much fuller story.” (John Hedgecoe/Popperfoto/Getty Images)Review by Casey SchwartzAugust 28, 2024 at 8:00 a.m. EDT“I’m straight, I’m married, I have three kids.
A New Book, ‘BoyMom,’ Seeks Answers on How to Raise Children - The New York Times

Jun 10, 2024 | nytimes.com | Casey Schwartz

Ruth Whippman had three sons and a lot of questions. In her memoir “BoyMom,” she hopes to offer parents some of the reporting she gathered on the road to understanding her children.
Living Through the End of California

Feb 2, 2024 | msn.com | Casey Schwartz

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Living Through the End of California

Feb 2, 2024 | theatlantic.com | Casey Schwartz

In his 1998 book, Ecology of Fear, Mike Davis, the late California muckraker and self-proclaimed Marxist environmentalist, made the case for “letting Malibu burn.” He pointed out that the city of Los Angeles devoted more resources to dealing with the wildfires that rage in the wealthy enclave of Malibu than to the ones that break out in downtown tenements. And yet, Malibu’s very design ensures the return of fire.
A Biography Examines Anna May Wong, a Revered and Reviled Chinese American Star

Aug 22, 2023 | nytimes.com | Casey Schwartz

Yunte Huang was emerging from the bathroom at the Formosa Cafe, a legendary Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, when a woman with long blond hair waved him down and requested a table for one. Huang, an author and English professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, smiled and walked back to the red-leather booth where he was finishing his fried tofu lunch. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. A correction was made on Aug.
A Biography Examines Anna May Wong, a Revered and Reviled Chinese American Star

Aug 21, 2023 | nytimes.com | Casey Schwartz

Yunte Huang was emerging from the bathroom at the Formosa Cafe, a legendary Chinese restaurant in Hollywood, when a woman with long blond hair waved him down and requested a table for one. Huang, an author and English professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara, smiled and walked back to the red-leather booth where he was finishing his fried tofu lunch. Subscribe to The Times to read as many articles as you like. A version of this article appears in print on Aug.