**A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.” – The New York TimesA wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown**Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever...

Thrown is Kerry Howley's knock-out debut and a unique journey into the world of Mixed Martial Arts fighting.In this darkly funny work of literary reportage, narrated by an excitable, semi-fictionalized graduate student named Kit, a bookish young woman insinuates herself into the lives of two cage fighters - one a young prodigy, the other an aging journeyman. Kerry Howley follows these men for three years through the bloody world of mixed m...

En ung och något uttråkad filosofistudent överger en dag den konferens hon befinner sig på i staden Des Moines. På samma hotell pågår en match i den blodiga sporten Mixed Martial Arts, MMA. På vinst och förlust slinker hon in på matchen. Hon blir överväldigad.Under tre års tid följer den amerikanska författaren Kerry Howley två fighters, Sean Huffman och Erik Koch. De svälter sig, bryter ben, sviker sina familjer och bildar nya i sin kamp för att lyfta sig från anonyma småstäder i ...

**A NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST • A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • A VANITY FAIR BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR“Riveting and darkly funny and in all senses of the word, unclassifiable.” – The New York TimesA wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy America—from the acclaimed author of Thrown**Who are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections—a culmination of everything you have ever...

Chi sei? Tu sei dati su dati, una rete di relazioni sociali, una mappa di connessioni, l’apice di tutto ciò che hai postato, googlato, inviato tramite email, a cui hai messo like o follow. In questo innovativo lavoro di nonfiction narrativa, Kerry Howley indaga le curiose implicazioni del vivere nell’èra dell’indelebile. E racconta la vera storia della linguista dell’intelligence Reality Winner, una giovane donna solitaria che, dopo aver stampato cinque pagine di informazioni classificate ...