Yeds Close to The

"A thrilling journey. . . . A must-read." Freida Pinto

In Close to the Knives, David Wojnarowicz gives us an important and timely document: a collection of creative essays – a scathing, sexy, sublimely humorous and honest personal testimony to the "Fear of Diversity in America."

In 1997, the computer was still a relatively new tool–-a sleek and unforgiving machine that was beyond the grasp of most users. With intimate and unflinching detail, software engineer Ellen Ullman examines the strange ecstasy of being at the forefront of the predominantly male technological revolution, and the difficulty of translating the inherent messiness of human life into artful and efficient code. Close to the Machine is an elegant and revelatory mediation on the dawn of the digital era.

Taut, elegantly written, and ever-attentive to the patients for whom he was the last best chance, Close to the Sun is an adventurous, riveting account based on the experience of over 40,000 heart surgeries, where everything was on the line every moment in the O.R.