Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind by Alan Jacobs

Breaking Bread with the Dead: A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

Alan Jacobs

192 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction psychology reflective slow-paced
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From the author of HOW TO THINK and THE PLEASURES OF READING IN AN AGE OF DISTRACTION, a literary guide to engaging with the voices of the past to stay sane in the presentW. H. Auden once wrote that “art is our chief means of breaking bread with t...

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hopeful 15%
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emotional 3%

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