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Bill Hayes Nonfiction author whose books combine memoir with science

A Subject Worth Losing Sleep Over

Date of Review:

03/25/2001

Published Work:

Reviewer:

Miriam Wolf

Source:

San Francisco Chronicle

Review Excerpt:

There’s nothing that brings out the poetry in a writer like the unattainable. … Hayes, a lifelong insomniac, pursues sleep as avidly and lyrically as Nabokov pursued butterflies. In the pages of Sleep Demons: An Insomniac’s Memoir, he lays bare a life obsessed with nighttime slumber and suffused with daytime drowsiness.

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A Subject Worth Losing Sleep Over