Comments on: Hope Remains https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2018/05/17/hope-remains/ Savory picks for the free range reader Wed, 12 Feb 2020 19:15:57 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.5 By: Matt Osborne https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2018/05/17/hope-remains/#comment-6204 Fri, 18 May 2018 00:13:33 +0000 https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/?p=25283#comment-6204 In reply to Mary Raymond.

Thanks, Mary. I enjoy your guest posts. — Matt

]]> By: Mary Raymond https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/2018/05/17/hope-remains/#comment-6198 Thu, 17 May 2018 11:04:45 +0000 https://www.bacononthebookshelf.com/?p=25283#comment-6198 This is beautiful, Matt. Earlier this year I read Tina Brown’s The Vanity Fair Diaries, and she talked about a charitable event she attended in the eighties about (I think) suicide prevention. It was a smallish dinner affair, and William Styron shared with the group about his struggles with depression. Tina Brown was so moved she convinced him to write about his experience for Vanity Fair. If I’m remembering correctly, the article was called Darkness Visible, and eventually became the book of the same name. Derek’s art is beautiful because it brings mental anguish and despair into the light when sufferers usually do the best they can to hide their pain and offer their version of “normal” to the world.

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