Bright Eyed

Lack of sleep is now considered a global public health epidemic by the CDC. Vaughan examines the issue through a blend of engaging memoir and incisive cultural commentary.With workers forced in to ever-more-precarious employment situations (freelancing, telecommunting), sleep is an important, yet often-overlooked part of the discussion about contemporary urbanism, the creative economy, and workplace culture, some of the topics broached briefly in The Trouble with Brunch: Work, Class and the Pursuit of Leisure, by Shawn Micallef (published by Coach House in 2014).