What The Reviewers Say

Positive

Based on 6 reviews

Attention: A Love Story

Casey Schwartz

What The Reviewers Say

Positive

Based on 6 reviews

Attention: A Love Story

Casey Schwartz

Positive
Annie Bostrom,
Booklist
Written in the aftermath of quitting the drug, which she begin taking in college, this book expands on Schwartz’s New York Times Magazine article 'Generation Adderall' to examine attention as both a concept and an action, especially in our smartphone-obsessed era.
Mixed
Parul Sehgal,
The New York Times Book Review
...a sprawling, comically unfocused study.
Positive
Thomas Beller,
4Columns
The problem with having such a great title is that it’s a lot to live up to.
Mixed
Annalisa Quinn,
NPR
Attention: A Love Story is Schwartz's quest for the point. It is an often lucid, sometimes hazy memoir-cum-meditation on the idea of attention. The sections on Adderall are undeniably the best.
Positive
Kirkus
A personal and professional study of the struggle with attention in an age of distraction.
Positive
Publishers Weekly
...an insightful hybrid of memoir and academic study on the subject of attention.