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Alan Jacobs

Breaking Bread with the Dead

A Reader's Guide to a More Tranquil Mind

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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 the dead. In his brilliant and compulsively readable new treatise, Breaking Bread with the Dead, Alan Jacobs shows us that engaging with the strange and wonderful writings of the past might help us live less anxiously in the present--and increase what Thomas Pynchon once called our personal density.Today we are battling too much information in a society changing at lightning speed, with algorithms aime… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-984878-41-0
  • EAN: 9781984878410
  • Produktnummer: 33427440
  • Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 192 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'006 KB

Über den Autor


ALAN JACOBS is Distinguished Professor of Humanities in the Honors Program at Baylor University. He has published fifteen books and writes for publications such as The Atlantic, Harper's Magazine, The Christian Century, The New Yorker, and The Wall Street Journal.

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