Kerry Howley Livres

This is a knock-out debut sports epic taking 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 two athletes for three years through the bloody world of mixed martial arts as they starve themselves, break bones, fail their families and form new ones in the quest to rise from remote Midwestern fairgrounds to packed Vegas arenas. With penetrating intelligence and wry humor, Howley exposes the profundities and absurdities of this American subculture

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 martial arts as they starve themselves, break bones, fail their families and form new ones in the quest to rise from remote.

From the acclaimed author of Thrown, a wild, humane, and hilarious meditation on post-privacy AmericaWho are you? You are data about data. You are a map of connections--a culmination of everything you have ever posted, searched, emailed, liked, and followed. In this groundbreaking work of narrative nonfiction, Kerry Howley investigates the curious implications of living in the age of the indelible. Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs tells the true story of intelligence specialist Reality Winner, a lone young woman who stuffs a state secret under her skirt and trusts the wrong people to help. After printing five pages of dangerous information she was never supposed to see, Winner finds herself at the mercy of forces more invasive than she could have possibly imagined.Following Winner's unlikely journey from rural Texas to a federal courtroom, Howley maps a hidden world, drawing in John Walker Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, a rescue dog named Outlaw Babyface Nelson, and a mother who will do whatever it takes to get her daughter out of jail. Howley's subjects face a challenge new to history: they are imprisoned by their past selves, trapped for as long as the Internet endures. A soap opera set in the deep state, Bottoms Up and the Devil Laughs is a free fall into a world where everything is recorded and nothing is sacred, from a singular writer unafraid to ask essential questions about the strangeness of modern life.

Kto ste? Ste dáta o dátach. Ste sieťou spoločenských vzťahov. Ste mapou prepojení. Ako veľmi nás zaťažuje to, ako sa sledujeme? V prvých rokoch dvadsiateho prvého storočia všetci zhromažďujú digitálne informácie, no nikto nevie, ako ich triediť. Od roku 2000 bolo vytvorených a uložených viac dát ako za celé predchádzajúce dejiny ľudstva. Celkový súhrn poznania ľudstva od jeho začiatkov do roku 2003 by sa zmestil do 5 exabajtov. Americká novinárka a spisovateľka Kerry Howley prináša strhujúci príbeh spravodajskej špecialistky a whistleblowerky Reality Winnerovej, osamelej mladej ženy, ktorá ukryla štátne tajomstvá a dôverovala nesprávnym ľuďom. Po tom, ako vytlačila päť strán s utajenými informáciami, ktoré nikdy nemala vidieť, sa Reality ocitla vydaná na milosť silám, ktoré boli oveľa neľudskejšie, než si dokázala predstaviť. Autorka mapuje Winnerovej cestu z texaského vidieka do federálnej súdnej siene a odkrýva utajovaný svet, v ktorom figurujú John Walkera Lindh, Lady Gaga, Edward Snowden, záchranný pes či matka, ktorá urobí čokoľvek, aby dostala dcéru z väzenia. Kniha Pod dohľadom je fascinujúca púť zákutiami tieňového štátu, v ktorom sa všetko zaznamenáva a nič nie je sväté. Kerry Howley sa nebojí klásť otázky o tom, čo znamená žiť v modernom svete.