I recently read A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius by David Eggers for the first time and loved it. In addition to the intricacies of Eggers’ unique voice and narrative style, there is a passage in the book I’ve been dwelling on ever since I put it down.
It comes about mid-way into the book, during a moment in which Eggers is essentially interviewing himself, and probing why he feels so confident sharing “embarrassing or private things” with such exquisite detail.
Most people, he writes, tend to believe that sharing “our secrets, our pasts and their blotches” will expose them in ways that might lessen who they are and what they stand for in the eyes of others.
But Eggers doesn’t seem to have this fear and presses for “more bleeding, more giving.”
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