Kathryn Schulz

«Un manifiesto nuevo y brillante que nos alienta a reconciliarnos con nuestros propios errores».The Independent«Una disertación divertida y filosófica sobre por qué el error es nuestro rasgo más huma

NATIONAL BESTSELLER NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS CHOICE A profound and beautiful (Marilynne Robinson) account of joy and sorrow from one of the great writers of our time, The New Yorkers Kathryn Schulz, winner of the Pulitzer PrizeI will stake my reputation on you being blown away by Lost & Found.Anne Lamott, author of Dusk, Night, Dawn and Bird by BirdWINNER OF THE LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL AN OPRAH DAILY BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE PAST TWO DECADESONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: PeopleONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: Time, NPR, Oprah Daily, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, Esquire, Vulture, She Reads, Book Riot, Publishers WeeklyOne spring morning, Kathryn Schulz went to lunch with a stranger and fell in love. Having spent years looking for the right relationship, she was dazzled by how swiftly everything changed when she finally met her future wife. But as the two of them began building a life together, Schulzs beloved fathera charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugeewent into the hospital with a minor heart condition and never came out. Newly in love yet also newly bereft, Schulz was left contending simultaneously with wild joy and terrible grief.Those twin experiences form the heart of Lost & Found, a profound meditation on the families that make us and the families we make. But Schulzs book also explores how disappearance and discovery shape us all. On average, we each lose two hundred thousand objects over our lifetime, and Schulz brilliantly illuminates the relationship between those everyday losses and our most devastating ones. Likewise, she explores the importance of seeking, whether for ancient ruins or new ideas, friends, faith, meaning, or love. The resulting book is part memoir, part guidebook to sustaining wonder and gratitude even in the face of loss and grief. A staff writer at The New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, and humor about the connections between joy and sorrowand between us all.

The bestselling history of and investigation into human error by beloved New Yorker writer Kathryn Schulz"Both wise and clever, full of fun and surprise about a topic so central to our lives that we almost never even think about it." Bill McKibben, author of Earth: Making a Life on a Tough New PlanetTo err is human. Yet most of us go through life assuming (and sometimes insisting) that we are right about nearly everything, from the origins of the universe to how to load the dishwasher. If being wrong is so natural, why is our grasp of the psychology of belief so flawed that we are bad at imagining our ideas could be mistaken, and why do we react to our errors with surprise, denial, defensiveness, and shame?In the tradition of The Wisdom of Crowds and Predictably Irrational, Being Wrong explores the fascinating human cognition behind what it means to be in error, and why homo sapiens tend to tacitly assume (or loudly insist) that they are right about most everything. Kathryn Schulz argues that error is the fundamental human condition and should be celebrated as such. Guiding the reader through the history and psychology of error, from Socrates to Alan Greenspan, Being Wrong will change the way you perceive screw-ups, both of the mammoth and daily variety, forever.This witty exploration of wrongology reveals:Our Surprising Fallibility: Schulz examines why being wrong is so natural, yet why we react to our own mistakes with surprise, denial, and shame. The Certainty Trap: An investigation into why we go through life assuming we are right about nearly everything, from how to load the dishwasher to the origins of the universe. A History of Error: A journey through the psychology and philosophy of being wrong, guided by thinkers and public figures from Socrates to Alan Greenspan. The Case for Being Wrong: A compelling argument for why error is the fundamental human condition, and why our capacity to screw up should be celebrated, not condemned.

«Una disertación divertida y filosófica sobre por qué el error es nuestro rasgo más humano, valiente y atractivo».The New York Times«Un manifiesto nuevo y brillante que nos alienta a reconciliarnos c

Extraordinary . . . a profound and beautiful book . . . a moving meditation on grief and loss, but also a sparky celebration of joy, wonder and the miracle of love . . . Witty, wise and beautifully written The Sunday TimesEighteen months before Kathryn Schulzs beloved father died, she met the woman she would marry. In Lost & Found, she weaves the stories of those relationships into a brilliant exploration of how all our lives are shaped by loss and discovery from the maddening disappearance of everyday objects to the sweeping devastations of war, pandemic, and natural disaster; from finding new planets to falling in love.Three very different American families form the heart of Lost & Found: the one that made Schulzs father, a charming, brilliant, absentminded Jewish refugee; the one that made her partner, an equally brilliant farmers daughter and devout Christian; and the one she herself makes through marriage.A staff writer at the New Yorker and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, Kathryn Schulz writes with curiosity, tenderness, erudition, and wit about our finite yet infinitely complicated lives. Crafted with the emotional clarity of C. S. Lewis and the intellectual force of Susan Sontag, Lost & Found is an uncommon book about common experiences.An extraordinary gift of a book, a tender, searching meditation on love and loss and what it means to be human. I wept at it, laughed with it, was entirely fascinated by it. I emerged feeling a little as if the world around me had been made anew. Helen Macdonald, author of H Is for Hawk

Una fascinante investigación que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades actuales frente a los desastres naturales.La falla geológica de San Andrés, que recorre de norte a sur el estado de California, es una de las mas estudiadas del planeta y la mas temida en Estados Unidos. Pero un poco mas hacia el norte existe otra falla, la zona de subduccion de Cascadia, mucho menos conocida pero capaz de provocar terremotos todavia mas devastadores.El gran terremoto es un reportaje que causo un enorme revuelo cuando se publico en 2015 en The New Yorker y que fue galardonado con el premio Pulitzer. Schulz convierte la historia del descubrimiento de esta falla y de su potencial destructor en una apasionante investigacion que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades actuales frente a los desastres naturales.Una elegante narracion de divulgacion cientifica sobre la ruptura de la falla de Cascadia, una obra maestra del periodismo y la literatura medioambiental. Jurado del premio PulitzerSus reconstrucciones del terremoto de Japon de 2011 y del que podria producirse en los estados de Washington y Oregon nos impactan tanto como las mejores obras de ficcion. The New YorkerEl reportaje es trepidante: se lee como se ve una pelicula de accion y, a la vez, es un texto politico, pues deja al descubierto la ceguera con que las administraciones afrontan estos riesgos. Luego llegan los lamentos y los politicos que se victimizan; en este caso, al menos, el periodismo habra cumplido su funcion.Jaime G. Mora(ABC Cultural)

Una fascinante investigación que nos invita a reflexionar sobre la vulnerabilidad de las sociedades actuales frente a los desastres naturales. La falla geológica de San Andrés, que recorre de norte a

Una meditación erudita y conmovedora sobre las fuerzas contrapuestas que moldean nuestra vida: el hallazgo y la pérdidaUna mañana de primavera, Kathryn Schulz fue a almorzar con una desconocida y se enamoro. Tras años de busqueda infructuosa, quedo deslumbrada por la rapidez con que todo cambio al conocer a su futura esposa. Meses despues su padre, un carismatico refugiado judio, fallecio inesperadamente. Recien enamorada y recien huerfana, tuvo que afrontar en paralelo una felicidad desbordante y un dolor terrible.En vez de escribir unas memorias de duelo convencionales, Schulz emprendio una fascinante investigacion sobre las infinitas formas en que la perdida y el descubrimiento moldean nuestro destino. Nos pasamos el dia extraviando y encontrando cosas, y se calcula que a lo largo de la vida perdemos unos doscientos mil objetos. Una estela salvaje ilumina de forma brillante la relacion entre estas perdidas cotidianas y las mas devastadoras: la extincion de los dinosaurios, la diaspora judia, el vuelo 370 de Malaysia Airlines, el cambio climatico. Y su reverso esperanzador, la busqueda, ya sea de las ruinas de Troya, nuevos planetas, ideas, amigos, fe o amor.En este libro inclasificable y omnimodo, la ganadora del Premio Pulitzer trasciende los estrechos limites del yo para elaborar un tratado filosofico en el que la experiencia humana se entrelaza con procesos historicos, naturales y cosmologicos, y nos confronta, en ultima instancia, con la inmensidad del universo.La critica ha dicho...Leer este libro produce un asombro continuo.Alison BechdelUna exploracion profunda y conmovedora de la felicidad y la perdida.Leslie JamisonSchulz tiene un talento especial para darle vueltas y vueltas a una idea familiar hasta que se vuelve cosmica, geologica, maravillosa.Jia TolentinoUn relato brillante, luminoso y maravillosamente bien escrito.Ines Martin RodrigoQue preciosidad de libro. Cuanto lo he disfrutado.Laura FerreroUna voz sabia y muy humana con la que querrias pasar horas conversando.Marta OrriolsUn libro magnifico.Lucia Mendez, El Mundo