I’ve read Plato’s Republic several times, and some commentaries on it (yes Bloom too). I’ve also read Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina several times - and truth be told I got more out of that.
It could be a temperament thing. But a novelist who shows human beings goes further for me than
“The world changes according to the way people see it, and if you can alter, even by a millimeter, the way people look at reality, then you can change the world.”
~James Baldwin
"A memoir of heartbreaking beauty and rare candor... a portrait of one mother's devastation and a testament to the human capacity for endurance and love."
Enter to win a copy of Danielle Crittenden's "Dispatches from Grief" from @infinitebooks
.@DCrittenden1 and @davidfrum's daughter Miranda–a former Firing Line staff member–died suddenly in 2024.
In her new book, Crittenden grapples with her grief and remembers the daughter she lost.
"She was very like her father. She was brilliant...One of her friends said that he
"With every joy now, there's a mixed sadness."
"Dispatches from Grief" author @DCrittenden1 explains how the loss of her daughter inevitably impacts even celebratory events like the birth of her first granddaughter.
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"The most helpful people, especially in the aftermath, my feeling was you should always lean into the grief and not away," says "Dispatches from Grief" author @DCrittenden1.
"In fact, what you want are people to lean into the suck."
FULL EPISODE: bit.ly/3OSQHoh
Infinite Books (@infinitebooks) author Danielle Crittenden discussing her book "Dispatches from Grief: A Mother's Journey Through the Unthinkable" on @FiringLineShow
The best way to comfort someone who is grieving is to lean into that pain, even if it means saying the wrong thing, says @DCrittenden1, who wrote a new book about losing her daughter.
“I don't blame people for saying the wrong things because they don't know,” says Crittenden.
.@DCrittenden1, who wrote a book about losing her daughter, expresses the frustration of coping with her daughter’s death in the digital age and accessing her old accounts.
“Our digital lives outlast our physical ones,” says Crittenden. “Her phone number is still in my list of
"It's not a book I ever, ever, of course, wanted to write."
@DCrittenden1 talks about "Dispatches from Grief," her journey through mourning, and living with the loss of her daughter.
TONIGHT 8:30 pm ET
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