Wanna know a Secret?

Frank Warren’s latest PostSecret book has it all: Confessions from hopeful atheists, distracted church goers, closeted virgins, wishful masturbators and guilty ant killers

 

 

 

 

Since starting his PostSecret project five years ago, Frank Warren has had one of the most enviable mailboxes in the world. Every day, about 200 postcards arrive to his home in Maryland, brimming with everything from cheeky claims to heartfelt confessions.

But his latest anthology, “PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God,” is intimate even by his standards.

“Most of them are heavy, but secrets are heavy, and often something we might be ashamed of,” says Warren of the collection. “They’re funny and personal and heartbreaking, but they all reveal a spiritual nature.”

So why would someone choose to tell a stranger about an unreported rape? Or strange desire to die while battling zombies? Or zen toilet meditations?

Warren speculates that it could, for some, be a therapeutic process: “I believe that sharing a secret — whether it be with a best friend or a stranger — can change us.”

PostSecret lecture with Frank Warren
Tonight, 7-9 p.m.
Teachers College of Columbia University
525 W. 120th St., Free
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