Frank Warren Visits BookPeople For Newest PostSecret Creation

Frank Warren From PostSecret Visits BookPeople
Saturday, December 12th
BookPeople (603 N. Lamar)
3pm - free
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Frank Warren’s newest conglomeration of stamped secrets is out, and it is decidedly spiritual this time. PostSecret: Confessions On Life, Death, And God is exactly what the title leads one to assume.

There are of course the obvious I’m an atheist but I'm in love with a preacher! sort of “secrets” told in this set, but there are many which are far, far more intriguing than that. The common pose of religion versus spirituality is beyond played out, and really needs no further development. But it does bear simple repeating, and preferably in a palatable format.

It bears repeating for those who already know it but have not heard it outside of their own heads, because those people need to know that the rest of us already know the difference and that it is perfectly normal to be so conflicted. It needs to be relayed in a palatable format because it is a subject which is only rivaled in difficulty to express by how boring the whole debate really is.

Frank Warren/Harper Collins

Which is what makes the PostSecret sentiments such as “I DON’T BELIEVE IN GOD, BUT I’M PRETTY SURE THE DEVIL GAVE ME CANCER” so important, and so bad ass. “DON’T” believe in god, yet “PRETTY SURE” about the devil? Really? Holy shit, if that is not the perfect description of the common philosophical conundrum guiding the machines of misfortune behind the curtain of humanity’s theologically crippled capacity for deductive reasoning…

Well, it is perfect. Funny. Witty. Cynical. Selfish. Oddly braggish, yet depressed. Like the post card pictured to the right. It is exactly what a thinking person is likely to encounter when considering a topic as infinitely universal and infinitesimally intimate as god/God. And it is within the nuances of these anonymous shadowed sentiments, as curated by Warren and co., which give the PostSecret formula some real kick.

Frank Warren will be at BookPeople to promote his newest curated work, Confessionss On Life, Death, And God. He will likely taking a roundtable-type discussion on the topic this Saturday, December 12th at 3pm. PLUS, he will likely be reading secrets from locals, as Bookpeople has a collection box going right now, and Frank will be handed this box, from which to pick secrets to read during the event! There will likely be a signing line, as is often the case for these things, so it would be prudent to get on BP’s list at 9am, per the rules.

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