Brigid Schulte

Overwhelmed: Work, Love, and Play when No One Has the Time Brigid Schulte

Publisher Marketing: Can working parents in America or anywhere ever find true leisure time?According to the Leisure Studies Department at the University of Iowa, true leisure is "that place in which we realize our humanity." If that s true, argues Brigid Schulte, then we're doing dangerously little realizing of our humanity. In "Overwhelmed," Schulte, a staff writer for "The Washington Post," asks: Are our brains, our partners, our culture, and our bosses making it impossible for us to experience anything but "contaminated time?"Schulte first asked this question in a 2010 feature for "The Washington Post Magazine" How did researchers compile this statistic that said we were rolling in leisure over four hours a day? Did any of us feel that we actually had downtime? Was there anything useful in their research anything we could do? "Overwhelmed" is a map of the stresses that have ripped our leisure to shreds, and a look at how to put the pieces back together. Schulte speaks to neuroscientists, sociologists, and hundreds of working parents to tease out the factors contributing to our collective sense of being overwhelmed, seeking insights, answers, and inspiration. She investigates progressive offices trying to invent a new kind of workplace; she travels across Europe to get a sense of how other countries accommodate working parents; she finds younger couples who claim to have figured out an ideal division of chores, childcare, and meaningful paid work. "Overwhelmed" is the story of what she found out." Review Citations: Entertainment Weekly 04/10/2015 pg. 66 (EAN 9781250062383, Paperback) New York Times Book Review 04/12/2015 pg. 28 (EAN 9781250062383, Paperback) Audio File 08/01/2014 pg. 54 (EAN 9781491530566, Compact Disc) Publishers Weekly 01/06/2014 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) - *Starred Review Kirkus Reviews 02/01/2014 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) Booklist 03/01/2014 pg. 6 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 03/30/2014 pg. 15 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) New York Times Book Review 04/06/2014 pg. 32 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) New Yorker (The) 05/26/2014 pg. 71 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) Choice 09/01/2014 pg. 170 (EAN 9780374228446, Hardcover) Contributor Bio:  Schulte, Brigid Brigid Schulte is an award-winning journalist for The Washington Post and The Washington Post Magazine, and was part of a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. She is also a fellow at the New America Foundation. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia, with her husband and their two children. Contributor Bio:  Gilbert, Tavia Tavia Gilbert, a six-time Audie Award nominee and multiple Earphones and Parent's Choice Award winning producer, narrator, and writer, has appeared on stage and in film. She has narrated over 250 multicast and single-voice audiobooks.