Written in the aftermath of quitting the drug, which she begin taking in college, this book expands on Schwartz’s New York Times Magazine article 'Generation Adderall' to examine attention as both a concept and an action, especially in our smartphone-obsessed era.

...a sprawling, comically unfocused study.

The problem with having such a great title is that it’s a lot to live up to.

Attention: A Love Story is Schwartz's quest for the point. It is an often lucid, sometimes hazy memoir-cum-meditation on the idea of attention. The sections on Adderall are undeniably the best.

A personal and professional study of the struggle with attention in an age of distraction.

...an insightful hybrid of memoir and academic study on the subject of attention.