Joshua wolf shenk biography of michael jackson

Joshua Wolf Shenk writes obsessively researched literary non-fiction about the problems he finds most curious, including the weird nexus of greatness/suffering (Lincoln’s Melancholy), the inter-personal chemistry that’s inherent in creativity (Powers of Two) and the power/peril of myth (The Question Man—forthcoming.) In short-form, on his Substack, he writes about learning from Big Bird about death, living with chronic illness, and “humanus imaginatus.”

Shenk’s essay “What Makes Us Happy?” about the psychiatrist George Vaillant and the Harvard happiness study has often been the top link delivered to a search query with that question.

His somewhat less Googleable essays include cover stories in Harper'sandTime, andshorter pieces in The New Yorker, The New York Times, Slate, GQ, The Nation, Riverteeth, The Virginia Quarterly Review, and the anthologies Unholy Ghost: Writers on Depression and Slouching Towards Los Angeles.

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