Eula Biss
Eula Biss
Eula Bissis an American non-fiction writer...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionWriter
CountryUnited States of America
citizens handle irregular ordinary
Some of the most interesting research that I did was about risk assessment and how ordinary citizens like me handle risk assessment and how irregular our risk assessments are.
age daily everyday life love
Art-making was part of my daily life from a very young age, and I still love that kind of everyday art-making.
obviously
Bram Stoker's 'Dracula,' in my reading, is really obviously about disease and our relation to disease.
interest pursue ways
I guess I could say that I pursue questions that interest me in ways that interest me on the page, but that's awfully vague.
drafted graduated manuscript time
I had already drafted the manuscript that would become my first book by the time I graduated from college, but I had no idea what to do with it.
age children diseases highly protecting vulnerable
I think that protecting children at the age where they're most vulnerable against diseases that are highly contagious is prudent.
bedtime early inventive memory poetry sound typewriter wrote
My mother wrote poetry when I was young - I have an early memory of the sound of her typewriter - and my father told me inventive bedtime stories.
extended talking thinking
My own thinking is often clarified and extended by talking with students.
doctors medical time
One of the shortcomings of our medical system is that doctors have very little time with their patients.
Our community of contagion really is a world community.
constitution
Our constitution got built around the idea of minority protection.
There's a lot of essay writing that could pass for journalism and journalism that could pass for essay. Some of it is just taxonomy.
ancient inevitable whatever
There's something ancient and inevitable about this desire to do whatever you can to protect your child.
activists metaphor
When I was researching the Victorian anti-vaccination movement, those activists often used a vampire as a metaphor for the vaccinator.