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Author: Bill Hayes
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We often think of sleep as mere stasis, a pause button we press at the end of each day. Yet sleep is full of untold mysterieseluding us when we seek it too fervently, throwing us into surreal dream worlds when we dont, sometimes even possessing our bodies so that they walk and talk without our conscious volition. Delving into the mysteries of his own sleep patterns, Bill Hayes marvels, I have come to see that sleep itself tells a story. An acclaimed journalist and memoiristand partner of the late neurologist Oliver SacksHayes has been plagued by insomnia his entire life. The science and mythology of sleep and sleeplessness form the backbone to Hayess narrative of his personal battles with sleep and how they colored his waking life, as he threads stories of fugitive sleep through memories of growing up in the closet, coming out to his Irish Catholic family, watching his friends fall ill during the early years of the AIDS crisis in San Francisco, and finding a lover. An erudite blend of science and personal narrative, Sleep Demons offers a poignant introduction to the topics for which Hayes has since become famous, including art, eros,city life, the history of medical science, and queer identity. **Review What if the hum [of sleep] never comes? Thats what writer and photographer Bill Hayes explores in his magnificent bookSleep Demons, part reflection on his own lifelong turmoil in the nocturne, part sweeping inquiry into the sometimes converging, sometimes colliding worlds of sleep research, psychology, medicine, mythology, aging, and mental health. (Maria Popova Brain Pickings) An intelligent, beautifully written book, Hayess curious hybrid will delight readers who snore past dawn as well as those who pace away while the midnight oil burns. (Publishers Weekly) Memoir, history, and science come together and apart again in a book that reads very much like a dream, switching genre and subject with a beautiful logic of its own, illuminated now and then with flashes of gorgeous insight. . . . Read this one, savor it, just dont take it to bed with you. (Out magazine) A graceful hybrid of a book thats half research treatise and half memoir about a gay man who grew up in a household steeped in forces of Ireland, Catholicism, and the military, this beautiful book seems just compensation for all his wakeful hours. (Entertainment Weekly) Hayess steady tone--learned, friendly, and wry--creates an impressive unity throughout. He manages to treat even the complex arcana of the science worlds attempts to understand sleep and sleeplessness in refreshing, lucid prose. By encapsulating his coming-out and queer-sex stories within the overarching theme of sleeplessness, Hayes pushes the borders of gay autobiography, giving new life to a powerful genre. . . . Who knew insomnia could be so much fun? (Kirkus Reviews) By leavening the personal with the scientific, Bill Hayes avoids that navel-gazing common to many life stories. Hayes has created something that goes beyond mere memoir call it obsessional autobiography. . . . [His] polished writing and fearless revelations make it work beautifully. (San Francisco Chronicle) Sleep Demonsis a lovely weave of memory and science, great characters and compassionate humor. Insomniacs will love it for the sense of connection and solution the rest of you (grrr) for its wisdom and wonderful writing. (Anne Lamott, author of Bird by Bird) Like the most rewarding kind of travel writer, Bill Hayes is both informative and personal as he takes us through the borderlands of sleep and waking, mysterious yet familiar. Im grateful for the way this intimate, reflective, and factual guidebook captures the feeling of that terrain. (Robert Pinsky) About the Author Bill Hayes is a Guggenheim Fellow and an acclaimed journalist, photographer, and memoirist.
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Author: Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof
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div id=iframeContent dir=autobThe gripping history of Afro-Latino migrants who conspired to overthrow a colonial monarchy, end slavery, and secure full citizenship in their homelandsbIn the late nineteenth century, a small group of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of African descent settled in the segregated tenements of New York City. At an immigrant educational society in Greenwich Village, these early Afro-Latino New Yorkers taught themselves to be poets, journalists, and revolutionaries. At the same time, these individualsincluding Rafael Serra, a cigar maker, writer, and politician Sotero Figueroa, a typesetter, editor, and publisher and Gertrudis Heredia, one of the first women of African descent to study midwifery at the University of Havanabuilt a political network and articulated an ideal of revolutionary nationalism centered on the projects of racial and social justice. These efforts were critical to the poet and diplomat Jose Martis writings about race and his bid for leadership among Cuban exiles, and to the later struggle to create space for black political participation in the Cuban Republic.InRacial Migrations, Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof presents a vivid portrait of these largely forgotten migrant revolutionaries, weaving together their experiences of migrating while black, their relationships with African American civil rights leaders, and their evolving participation in nationalist political movements. By placing Afro-Latino New Yorkers at the center of the story, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a new interpretation of the revolutionary politics of the Spanish Caribbean, including the idea that Cuba could become a nation without racial divisions.A model of transnational and comparative research,Racial Migrationsreveals the complexities of race-making within migrant communities and the power of small groups of immigrants to transform their home societies.ReviewFollowing carefully a printed trail of clues produced by a remarkable group of radicals of African descent, from Cuba and Puerto Rico to the United States, Hoffnung-Garskof offers a rich reconstruction of a vibrant and little-known world of black activism and intellectual production. Giving readers access to important history through interconnected stories, Racial Migrations is beautifully written. - Alejandro de la Fuente, Harvard University Hoffnung-Garskofs study of black immigrants from the Spanish Caribbean in late nineteenth-century New York captures brilliantly the experience of migrating while black and Latino. Superbly written, researched, and argued, this sophisticated and nuanced book will be immensely important, a model work of transnational history of migration and race. - Ada Ferrer, New York University In this beautifully written book, New York City assumes its rightful place as one of Americas great crossroads. Hoffnung-Garskof brings to life a fascinating cast of characters and charts their remarkable voyages between exile and home Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Manhattan and Latin American and U.S. notions of race. - Karl Jacoby, author of The Strange Career of William Ellis The Texas Slave Who Became a Mexican MillionaireA captivating epic of New York City in the Gilded Age, Racial Migrations reveals a hidden, radical facet of the citys history. Men and women of color from Cuba and Puerto Rico built a vibrant transnational community and theorized a complex political movement from their experiences of varied racial regimes. Harnessing a trove of original data and applying his skilled historical imagination, Hoffnung-Garskof tells a tale of remarkable individuals who turned a northern urban center into a seedbed of Caribbean revolution. - Tiya Miles, author of The Dawn of Detroit A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the StraitsThis exquisitely detailed narrative traces the racial migrations of long-forgotten Afro-Cubans and Puerto Ricans who traveled north to settle in New York City in the 1880s and 1890s. In so doing, this work sheds new light on Caribbean activism in the city, illuminating how the literary and political engagements of these men and women helped further Cuban leaderJose Martis dream of racial democracy. - Carla L. Peterson, author of Black Gotham A Family History of African Americans in Nineteenth-Century New York CityAbout the Author Jesse Hoffnung-Garskof is professor of history, American culture, and Latinao studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of A Tale of Two Cities Santo Domingo and New York after 1950 (Princeton).
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