![]() ![]() We're answering work emails on a Sunday night, we're getting texts on our vacations, and all of that is very real. The following has been lightly edited for length and clarity. Watch my "Salon Talks" episode with Celeste Headlee here, or read the transcript below: Headlee, the co-host of "Retro Report" on PBS and author of the bestselling "We Need to Talk: How to Have Conversations That Matter," joined us recently in our Salon studio to talk about why we aren't really working any more than our parents did, and why working from home now shouldn't mean we're working 24/7. It feels imperative to our mental and physical health to slow down. Our brains are already on high alert for the foreseeable future. Yet her message - of creating boundaries, of stepping away from the glowing screen now and then, of admitting that multitasking makes us less productive rather than more - seems more important now than ever. Already, the notion of eating lunch in your cubicle or answering work emails from home seem like the habits of another era. ![]() ![]() The world has changed exponentially since Celeste Headlee released her latest book "Do Nothing: How to Break Away From Overworking, Overdoing, and Under Living" just earlier this month. ![]()
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For fans of Children of Blood and Bone and Six of Crows comes the thrilling conclusion to the Blood Heir trilogy. ![]() ![]() ![]() 'Literature begins and ends with the meaning of what Miller has done' Lawrence Durrell Tropic of Capricorn paints a dazzling picture of the life of the writer and of New York City between the wars: the skyscrapers and the sewers, the lust and the dejection, the smells and the sounds of a city that is perpetually in motion, threatening to swallow everyone and everything. Miller who works for the Cosmodemonic telegraph company in New York in the 1920s and tries to write the most important work of literature that was ever published. A mixture of fiction and autobiography, it is the story of Henry V. ![]() ![]() A cult modern classic, Tropic of Capricorn is as daring, frank and influential as Henry Miller first novel, Tropic of Cancer - new to Penguin Modern Classics with a cover by Tracey EminĪ story of sexual and spiritual awakening, Tropic of Capricorn shocked readers when it was published in 1939. ![]() |