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SUMMARY:Casey Schwartz - Attention: A Love Story
DESCRIPTION:Casey Schwartz - Attention: A Love Story — in conversation wi
 th Franklin Foer As we become increasingly distracted by electronic device
 s—unlocking iPhones an average of 80 times a day\, twice as often for mi
 llennials—we’re looking more closely at what the digital age is robbin
 g us of: attention and focus. Expanding on her New York Times Magazine art
 icle\, "Generation Adderall\," Schwarz\, author of In the Mind Fields\, bl
 ends memoir\, biography\, and reporting for a close look at what it means 
 to pay attention—or not. Working from her own experience with prescripti
 on drugs intended to enhance attention\, she considers our cultural cravin
 g for both distractions and cures from distraction and examines the questi
 on in the work and lives of writers such as David Foster Wallace\, Aldous 
 Huxley\, William James\, and Simone Weil. Casey Schwartz will be in conver
 sation with Franklin Foer\, staff writer at The Atlantic.
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LOCATION:5015 Connecticut Avenue NW \, Washington\, D.C. (United States of 
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