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On July 20, 2012, twelve people were killed and fifty-eight wounded at a mass shooting in a movie theater in Colorado. In 1999, thirteen kids at Columbine High School were murdered by their peers. In 2012, twenty children and seven adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary. Thirty-two were killed at Virginia Tech. Twelve killed at the Washington Navy Yard. In May 2014, after posting a YouTube video of ‘retribution” and lamenting a life of “loneliness, rejection, and unfulfilled desires,” a lone gunman killed six and wounded seven in Isla Vista. All of these acts of violence were committed by young men between the ages of eighteen and thirty.
Mass violence committed by young people is now an epidemic. In the first fourteen school days of 2014, there were seven school shootings, compared to twenty-eight school shootings in all of 2013. The reasons behind this escalating violence, and the cultural forces that have impugned a generation, is the subject of the important new book The Spiral Notebook.
New York Times-bestselling author Stephen Singular has often examined violence in America in his critically-acclaimed books. Here he has teamed with his wife Joyce for their most important work yet — one that investigates why America keeps producing twenty-something mass killers. Their reporting has produced the most comprehensive look at the Aurora shooting yet and draws upon the one group left out of the discussion of violence in America: the twenty-somethings themselves.
While following the legal proceedings in the Aurora shooting, The Spiral Notebook is full of interviews with Generation Z, a group dogged by big pharma and anti-depressants and ADHD drugs, by a doomsday/apocalyptic mentality present since birth, and by an entertainment industry that has turned violence into parlor games.
Provocative and eye-opening, The Spiral Notebook is a glimpse into the forces that are shaping the future of American youth, an entire generation bathed in the violence committed by their peers.
- Sales Rank: #1306734 in Books
- Published on: 2015-06-09
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 8.90" h x 1.10" w x 6.20" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
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Praise for The Spiral Notebook
"The Singulars are able and enthusiastic reporters, providing detailed depictions of the event, the lead-up to it, the emergency response, and then, to their frustration, a judicial process assiduously withheld from the prying eyes of the media."—Brooklyn Rail
"The Singulars offer a harrowing look at the crime and the courtroom drama. They explore the complex legal battles, particularly over the issue of Holmes' sanity and a spiral notebook that might hold the key to determining his state of mind… This is a compelling look at gun control, mental-health treatment, and the underlying social issues that contribute to rising violence, especially that committed by young men, in our nation."—Booklist Starred Review
"[A] disturbing yet fascinating treatise on the impacts of growing up in a world that previous generations would barely recognize....Tragic, gripping, and authentic, this book deserves a wide audience."—Kirkus Starred Review
Praise for Talked to Death
“The book works at every level, from melodrama to murder mystery to sociology. Singular has much to tell us here, and all of it is disturbing.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
“Mr. Singular offers a microcosm lesson in the workings of a violently racist mind… It is the story of how broadcast communications is evolving in our era and what it has cost us.” —New York Times
“A chilling examination of American-born right-wing terrorism.” —Chicago Tribune
Praise for Presumed Guilty: An Investigation into the JonBenet Ramsey Case, the Media, and the Culture of Pornography
“Veteran crime journalist Singular offers an original perspective on the sadly epochal killing of JonBenet Ramsey… He focuses on the carnivorous mode of the mass media, particularly their lurid, immediate indictment of the Ramsey parents. Singular’s perceptive exploration of the near-universal call for the Ramseys’ heads reveals the gritty power struggles and class schisms that underlie the shiny, comforting facade of the Boulder region. Unlike his dirt-chasing peers, he gives nuanced attention to an unsettling aspect of the case that he considers overlooked yet central: the gray area in which the mainstreamed commodification of children’s sexuality collides with the abuse of child pornography… Without fully lighting the dark corners of an unappealing realm, Singular has produced a balanced, detailed, thoughtful
consideration of an incident usually reduced to cultural dissonance.” —Kirkus Reviews
“The best writing about the Colorado murder case.” —USA Today
“Novel, interesting, and a great read… Presumed Guilty opens the Ramsey case to a larger phenomenon [and] a shocking, disturbing aspect of American life.” —The New York Post
“Presumed Guilty is as close to the truth as we’ll ever get in this baffling case.” —The Arizona Daily Star
About the Author
Stephen Singular has published twenty books about high profile crimes and their impact on society. His articles have appeared in New York Magazine, Psychology Today, Inside Sports, The New York Times Magazine, Rolling Stone, and American Photo.
Joyce Singular is a researcher and collaborator on a number of titles with her husband, adding a female perspective on the nature of crime. They live in Denver, Colorado, with their son.
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People my age aren’t taught anything about how to deal with their emotions. They don’t have any background for this and many don’t have any grounding in morality or spirituality. A lot of males of my generation have been raised without fathers. They try to act as if this doesn’t bother or affect them, but it does. They’re insecure about it, but never talk about that. They don’t have male role models who can show them how to behave not just physically, but emotionally. Or their fathers are so caught up in their work that they never take the time to do this. How do you deal with anger or fear when it comes up inside of you? How do you manage yourself when something deeply upsets or hurts you? If you don’t have a parent, especially one of your own gender, to look to for this kind of guidance, it makes it doubly hard to grow up. In the absence of these role models, what do you have? Action characters in video games and movies.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful.
The Spiral Notebook
By Brendan Moody
This is an odd hybrid: half a conventional true crime account of the Aurora theater shooting, half a reflection on the causes of mass shootings more generally. The former is solid, unexceptionable work of its type, hampered only by the facts that the trial is ongoing and that the title document, written by James Holmes and possibly revealing his psychological state, remains unavailable to the general public. There's a tetchy quality to the authors' discussion of the delays and secrecy surrounding the trial. A cynic might attribute this to frustration that they've been following the case for years and have only gotten half a book out of it, but that would be unfair. The Singulars want a speedy resolution, I think, because they imagine that the completion of the trial and the revelation of the notebook's contents will explain the Aurora shooting, and provide answers to the larger question of why such things happen. But I'm not sure that's true, and that disagreement cuts to the heart of my issues with this well-intentioned, thoughtful book.
Two members of the Singular family are credited as authors of The Spiral Notebook, but the writers' son Eric is also a major influence. In the aftermath of the Aurora shooting, the family engaged in a conversation about how contemporary society has shaped and warped people of Eric's generation. Let's be clear: it's great that they had this dialogue, and it's great that it gave the family a greater sense that they understood and appreciated each other. But the degree to which Eric's personal influences and opinions have shaped this book's treatment of an entire generation is a problem. The meaning of alternative media to "millenials" is a valuable subject, but why talk about Vice in particular, except that it's what Eric happens to know? I'm aware that a lot of guys think, like Eric, that Fight Club is a big deal, but then a lot of us don't. A breathless and initially baffling late chapter on the intriguing but tentative possible benefits of yoga and mindfulness because clearer when we learn that Eric Singular has taken up the practice. Scattered quotes from interviews with others in his age group give an impression of a wider focus, but one suspects they've been carefully chosen to reflect the things the authors have already decided are important.
One of the many commendable aspects of The Spiral Notebook is that its social critique is wide-ranging. Gun control, mental health, bullying, foreign policy, economic stability: there's barely an aspect of modern American life that the Singulars don't take issue with. But trying to tackle all of that in half of a 318-page book means that there isn't much room for argumentation or nuance. Apart from scattered citation of statistics about the rise of mass violence and the increase in heavy use of psychoactive drugs, the authors tend to assert rather than argue, which will have many readers nodding at certain points, shaking their head at others, and rarely being persuaded to look at the subject in a new way. Personally, I found myself most frustrated by the authors' perception of my own generation as uniquely disillusioned and out of touch with the beliefs of the wider society. Young people must always confront and cope with the ways in which the values on which they were reared conflict with and complicate adult life, and I really don't think, despite a brief, hand-waving effort to explain how today's counter-culture kids are different from those of the 60s and the 70s, that the frustrations and protest movements of today are much distinct from those of the past.
The real question, though, is to what extent a wide-ranging discontent can explain a disproportionately visible but small-scale phenomenon like mass violence. There may be a current "epidemic" by comparison to previous decades, but the absolute number of people committing acts of mass violence is still miniscule. To what extent can we assume that these deeply troubled individuals are different in degree rather than kind from their conflicted but not violent contemporaries, that they are products of a sort of perfect storm of common social failings rather than of distinctive biological or environmental circumstance? The issues under discussion in this book are important, but their importance doesn't stand or fall on their possible contribution to mass violence. Bullying is a social problem even if the idea (echoed here) that it was a significant factor in the Columbine shooting has been convincingly debunked. Part of the reason our society can't make any progress on major questions of our time is that we only talk about them after extreme, headline-generating cases. We talk about guns and mental health after mass shootings, about bullying after tragic suicides, about bigotry after a celebrity says something stupid or careless. But gun violence hurts many more people than mass shooting victims, and bullying scars even the vast majorities who don't commit suicide. In some ways the social commentary of this book might be more powerful if it were entirely divorced from the question of mass violence.
To return, then, to the spiral notebook. The Singulars seem to believe, or to hope, that because Holmes was smarter than some mass shooters, and because he was studying the workings of the mind, his notebook will lay bare not only his only motivations but the logic (as it were) of mass shootings more generally. But every mass shooter is different. There can be no Rosetta Stone for their minds, any more than Eric Singular can speak for his generation. The best thing about The Spiral Notebook is its warm-hearted optimism, its emphasis on the importance of community, acknowledgement, and understanding for the general welfare. But part of understanding is acceptance of complexity, recognition that some dilemmas remain inexplicable or insoluble and that a hunger for simple and satisfying answers can exacerbate the problems it's meant to solve. This is a valuable book for those looking for an introduction to the social and political topics that surround mass violence, but its limitations make it a place to begin rather than a one-stop guide.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Flunking Out Of Life On Earth . . . .
By SundayAtDusk
The The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth is a highly readable book, but does it offer any new insights in mass violence committed by young men? It covers topics that have been addressed over and over again--violence in video games and movies, availability of guns and ammunition, bullying, drugs prescribed by doctors and psychiatrists, obsessions with superheroes and post apocalyptic stories, reading limited to comic books or online sources, etc. It concentrated a little on drinking, probably not anywhere near as much as it should have. That's true of marijuana usage, too, if it was even mentioned in the book. Also, organized religion, or the lack there of, was oddly hardly mentioned.
To make this book different from the rest on the topic, authors Stephen and Joyce Singular used their own twenty-something son, Eric, as the main spokesperson for his generation. I'm also wondering if they did that to show other parents how they didn't really know what their son was thinking, until he started talking to them about the topics in this book. Thus, they could understand how parents of murderous young men could be truly shocked when they got a call from the police or press. The quotes from Eric and others from his generation in the book are interesting, but nothing new. In fact, many sound exactly like the sentiments expressed by other twenty-something individuals of past generations, such as those during the 1960s. No, life isn't like it was back in the 1960s, but the desire of some young people to change the world, to make it better, is the same; just as the complaint that parents cannot possibly understand their children's generation.
The main murderer concentrated on in The Spiral Notebook: The Aurora Theater Shooter and the Epidemic of Mass Violence Committed by American Youth is of course James Holmes, who killed 12 people and wounded 70 in a Colorado theater that was showing a Batman movie in 2012. His trial is still going on today, as I write this review, and his spiral notebook is finally being read in court. Hence, the Singular's book has nothing from the notebook in it, so it is extremely odd that they would name their book after that then unknown-to-the-public notebook. James Holmes probably isn't the best twenty-something killer to look at either. He is one unusual person, who actually makes one think of the maxim that the line between genius and insanity is thin. Thus, why he did what he did might have little to do with why other men in his generation kill. All these young men made the same decision, however--the decision to kill. Personally, my interest in why they kill is limited, since I don't find such killers to be anything but total failures in living their current lifetime and overcoming suffering they should have overcome, as opposed to seeing their suffering as so special that they had the right to make others suffer.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Had The Potential To Be Great, But Missed On Several Levels
By Frederick S. Goethel
The Colorado theater massacre was one of the worst mass shootings in history, until that point in time, and lessons learned from the events and the shooter had the potential to reveal what goes through the mind of a mass murderer and what we can do to start to reduce the number of these incidents in the future.
The information presented about the actually shooting, and the shooter were excellent and provided interesting information about the crime. The case, however, is under a gag order from the court, so the amount of information and the number of sources was limited. That hampered the efforts to discuss the shootings to the level they deserved.
The information about why this is happening is, in my opinion, lacking. Interviewing people of the generation that is usually involved in these shooting revealed a broad spread of ideas, but many of them lacked credible substance. I can't really get to enthused about the idea that they have "lived with war and violence their whole lives" or that there they are under tremendous strain to perform well. I grww up in the sixties. We went from being worried about being vaporized by nuclear weapons every day to the Vietnam war on the nightly news and we lived in a constant state of war for a decade. Yet my generation isn't involved in mass shootings.
I do think that the student who pointed to easy access to guns and to violent video games and movies are on to something. The violence portrayed in these venues has no cost associated with it. While I grew up with the Roadrunner getting run over all the time, it wasn't real. The video games portray real violence to real people with no consequences. In the end, it isn't the kids fault for these. The parents need to limit exposure to these games instead of using them as electronic baby sitters. Our daughter was exposed to them, but we never allowed them in our house. We wanted to promote a culture of reading and activity…not sitting around playing games of fantasy on TV.
In the long run, the biggest failure of this book was to write and issue it before the trail is settled. The trail is currently ongoing, and a lot more information would have been available had the authors simply waited for the trail to take place. The premise of the book surrounds the spiral notebook, yet no one has even seen the contents. The authors should have waited to get as much information as possible before going to press. It would have made for a much more complete book.
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