Breaking Bread with the Dead by Alan Jacobs

https://thebookvoice.com/podcasts/2/audible/161923 to listen full audiobooks. Title: Breaking Bread with the Dead Author: Alan Jacobs Narrator: P.J. Ochlan Format: mp3 Length: 4 hrs and 51 mins Release date: 09-08-20 Ratings: 4.5 out of 5 stars, 76 ratings Genres: Ethics & Morality Publisher's Summary: W. H. Auden once wrote that "art is our chief means of breaking bread with the dead." In his brilliant and compulsively listenable new treatise, 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 aimed at shaping our every thought - plus a sense that history offers no resources, only impediments to overcome or ignore.