What Non-Fiction are you currently/just read?

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13. Currently reading the following:

I am reading this essay titled "A Study in Blue: trauma, affect, event" by Andrea Long. In the author's words, the essay aims to "ask what happens when an event doesn't." More particularly, it aims to establish ways of talking about "ordinary affective life," and this includes talking about this in the public sphere. Which is to say, the essay is also about the American public sphere and public discourse and what it excludes.

Second, I'm reading Howard Abadinsky's "Drug Use and Abuse: A Comprehensive Introduction." A highly multidisciplinary book, it draws from law, sociology, public policy, and psychology. Although it doesn't openly deal with how drug use and abuse is dealt with in the public sphere, there is plenty in it that allows the reader to probe this question. I'd say both readings are quite related, and give many fresh insights.