The End of Burnout is here!
Named one of Amazon’s Best Books of 2022
“In this profound, humane, and timely book, Jonathan Malesic diagnoses our burned-out condition with more clarity than anyone before him. But just as importantly, he shows us a path through and out of the crisis—toward a thrilling yet achievable vision of life with our jobs no longer at the center.”
—Oliver Burkeman, author of Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Going beyond the how and why of burnout, a former tenured professor combines academic methods and first-person experience to propose new ways for resisting our cultural obsession with work and transforming our vision of human flourishing.
“The End of Burnout is compassionate and wry, addictive and propulsive. It doesn’t just identify the causes of burnout; it offers us compelling examples of what the alternative offers and what it can look like. It’s one thing to identify burnout in your own life. It’s another to actively seek out the ways to embrace a posture that counters it. This book, one of very few that offer you a graspable glimpse of a different way of a life, feels like a revelation.”
—Anne Helen Petersen, author of Can’t Even: How Millennials Became the Burnout Generation
Jonathan Malesic is an essayist, journalist, and scholar whose writing has been recognized as notable in Best American Essays (2019, 2020, 2021, 2022) and Best American Food Writing (2020) and has received special mention in the Pushcart Prize anthology (2019). His work has appeared in the New York Times, The New Republic, The Atlantic, Washington Post, America, Commonweal, Notre Dame Magazine, The Hedgehog Review, The Point, Chronicle of Higher Education, and elsewhere. He has been the recipient of major grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Louisville Institute. His first book, Secret Faith in the Public Square, won a ForeWord INDIES gold medal for the religion category (2009). His newest book, The End of Burnout, was named a best book of 2022 by Amazon and the Next Big Idea Club. He lives in Dallas.
