Read books download free My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa 9781524742294

My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa

• My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love
• Dessa
• Page: 272
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781524742294
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

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My Own Devices: True Stories from the Road on Music, Science, and Senseless Love by Dessa “Incredible gravitas and presence and humanity. There’s just so much intelligence to everything she does.” – NPR, All Songs Considered

Dessa defies category—she is an intellectual with an international rap career and an inhaler in her backpack; a creative writer fascinated by philosophy and behavioral science; and a funny, charismatic performer dogged by blue moods and heartache. She’s ferocious on stage and endearingly neurotic in the tour van. Her stunning literary debut memoir stitches together poignant insights on love, science, and language—a demonstration of just how far the mind can travel while the body is on a six-hour ride to the next gig.

In “The Fool That Bets Against Me,” Dessa writes to Geico to request a commercial insurance policy for the broken heart that’s helped her write so many sad songs. “A Ringing in the Ears” tells the story of her father building a wooden airplane in their backyard garage. In “Congratulations,” she describes the challenge of recording a song for The Hamilton Mixtape in a Minneapolis basement, straining for a high note and hoping for a break. “Call off Your Ghost” chronicles the fascinating project she undertook with a team of neuroscientists to try and clinically excise romantic feelings for an old flame. Her writing is infused with scientific research, dry wit, a philosophical perspective, and an abiding tenderness for the people she tours with and the people she leaves behind to be on the road.

My Own Devices is an uncompromising and candid account of a life in motion, in music, and in love. Dessa is as compelling on the page as she is onstage, making My Own Devices the debut of a unique and deft literary voice.

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