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Nothing to Be Frightened Of by Julian Barnes

Thursday January 1, 2009

Julian Barnes is an incredible thinker and an incredible author. In Nothing to Be Frightened Of he weaves his personal experience and the experience of French and British writers and thinkers into a long meditation on death - a great topic if like me you find that awareness of your own eventual expiration informs how you live each day. Read more.

Photo credit: Alfred A. Knopf

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