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Let There Be Darkness

By: William Giraldi
Narrated by: Gary Tiedemann
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In defense of depressing literature.

©2004 William Giraldi (P)2016 Audible, Inc. Social Sciences
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I will listen to this many more times. I wish Giraldi would turn this into a book-length work. Like the best essays, it deals with many aspects of life, including relationships with parents, identity, death, grief, love, and healing, and the role of dark, or difficult, literature in living deeply. And the essay itself enacts the type of artistic catharsis it describes. (Having read Giraldi's novel 'Hold the Dark', I also highly recommend that - it's one of the few novels I've read that are legitimately literature and thriller - the audiobook version is narrated well, and I've bought and read the hard copy and it's full of poetry and suspense).

One of the best essays I've read

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