Breaking Bread with the Dead - by Alan Jacobs (Paperback)

Breaking Bread with the Dead is a literary guide that offers a unique solution to our modern problems of information overload and historical amnesia.

By engaging in conversation with the voices of the past, this book helps us live less anxiously in the present and increase our "personal density" as described by Thomas Pynchon.

Through close and sympathetic readings of texts from across history, Breaking Bread with the Dead shows how Homer can teach us about force, Frederick Douglass deals with the massive blind spots of America's Founding Fathers, and Ursula K.

Le Guin reveals truths about Virgil's female characters that Virgil himself could never have seen.

This book is a must-read for anyone seeking to deepen their understanding of the past and its relevance to our lives today.