Join Dominic Pettman and Leila Taylor for a dual launch of their books “Seeking Attention: 30 Ways of Being Present” and “Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread” at the iconic KGB Bar’s Red Room in NYC this 27th of February!

Seeking Attention offers thirty compelling “portraits” of modern life- from “The Hypochondriac” to “The Self-Driving Car”- guiding readers through the complex world of modern media and technology. Blending philosophy, psychology, and cultural criticism, Pettman explores the “attention economy” and “industrial distraction complex,” showing how our awareness is shaped both by personal choices and external influences.

Sick Houses uncovers how Horror begins at home… From family homes in Amityville to Gothic mansions in Los Angeles and the Unabomber’s cabin, houses often capture and contain the horror that has happened within them. Sick Houses crosses the threshold of these eerie spaces to explore how different types of architecture become vessels for terror and how these spaces, meant to shelter us, instead become the source of our deepest fears. Using film, television, and literature to explain why we are drawn to haunted and haunting places, Sick Houses is a must read for anyone who has ever looked at a house and sensed there might be something unsettling going on inside.