{"product_id":"pursuits-of-happiness-eva-brann-9781589881471","title":"Pursuits of Happiness: On Being Interested","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"[Brann] is a person of many strong interests. The central chapter of this book, 'On Being Interested, ' offers a road map to staying happy: cultivate real interests . . . For John Locke and his disciple Thomas Jefferson, happiness is not pleasure. Like those precursors, Brann teaches Americans to free themselves from attachment to superficial gratifications and to pursue a higher-quality contentment with life. She locates this contentment in our 'interestedness.' . . . As an American, my encounter with Brann's work calls me back to a sense of my own good fortune. Against a keening background noise of lament--over the economy, the climate, the pandemic, the predations of technology, crime--Eva Brann's bright witness lifts me up and out.\"\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Peggy Ellsberg, \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Review of Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\"Brann holds us steady in a world that sometimes seems chaotic . . . At this time, the loudest voices among us are dystopian, and spoken language is losing all civility. If you want a change from this, \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e is a good place to start. Here's a fascinating, independent-minded writer whose words connect us to living more fully toward a more beneficial life--thought-forms as catalysts.\"--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eWashington Independent Review of Books\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eThe essays of \u003ci\u003ePursuits of Happiness\u003c\/i\u003e are articulations of Eva Brann's \"vocational\" happiness of thinking things through. To Ms. Brann our inalienable right to the pursuit of happiness is the right not to an \"endless chase,\" but rather the right to the actual practice of happiness, as in the \"pursuit of a vocation.\" With essays like \"Tips on Reading Homer\" and \"The Greatness of Great Books\" she keeps at her calling: to understand the world around us, and between us, to listen to our inner self-talk, and to consider what comes, perhaps, from beyond us.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Eva Brann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1589881478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781589881471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Paul Dry Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/29\/2020\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 612\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.45lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.40h x 5.50w x 1.20d","brand":"Eva Brann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43985228693759,"sku":"9781589881471","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_1b37d2a6-203a-4ca2-a157-cc24693956bc.jpg?v=1683276322","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/pursuits-of-happiness-eva-brann-9781589881471","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}