Ten years ago today, I lost a friend to suicide.
I still miss him, though to have had such a bright and close companion in the crucial last year of secondary school will always be one of the greatest blessings of my youth.
Before he was my friend, he was a son, an older brother, and when by himself, a voracious reader.
#mensmentalhealthawareness, #malesuicide, and the struggle for acceptance of pain and perplexity lies at the heart of The Lit Path’s mission to bring the power of the novel into these conversations.
The Lit Path does not make the case that reading great works of fiction simplifies the path to greater understanding and acceptance of oneself and others.
Simplicity is, after all, the #manospheremovement’s biggest appeal to young men, and the very thing that undermines both it and them.
Rather, reading novels may complicate things just enough to help us live more easily with our own confusion, and perceive the reality of others more clearly.
Before we announce the first episode of the series, I wanted to take this moment to honour the guy in whose memory it was launched in part to serve.
To reading, and to friendship. #fyp #foryoupage💙
Brand new episode of The Booking Club recorded in #brooklyn at @lepaddock with the Irish novelist @mmegannolan is available to listen to NOW! Nolan and @jackaldane discuss reading, writing and living in an age of splintered attention. #fyp #bookstagram #foryoupage💙 #foryourpage
🔊 LISTEN FROM TOMORROW!
@jackaldane ’s third interview in The Booking Club’s trifecta from New York this season brings Irish novelist @mmegannolan to her favourite spot in Brooklyn @lepaddock to talk about the lost art of paying attention + more. #fyp #bookstagram #foryoupage💙 #friendsofattention #brooklyn
@_neon.v is a follower of The Lit Path, with his book rec, The Alchemist by #paulocoelho . The Lit Path wants to hear your novel recommendation to men who, like Alex, have spent years down the stealth-help 🐰 hole, and are finally looking for wisdom in great works of fiction. #fyp #foryoupage💙 #bookstagram #whymenshouldreadnovels
🎧 LISTEN NOW to a brand new episode with @ross.barkan speaking to @jackaldane at Edward’s in downtown Manhattan about his new novel, 📚 COLOSSUS 📚 🔗 in BIO
Discover how the art of self-reinvention has made and unmade America over a century. #fyp #foryoupage💙 #bookstagram #novel #americannovels
Think Will Self has mellowed with age? Not a chance. He was in ferocious form and no one spared, from the English to the RMT to the clergy.
Brilliantly steered by @jackaldane of the @bookingclubpod , the evening sold out and then some. Will Self’s new novel The Quantity Theory of Morality is out now—come and pick up a copy at Special Rider.
Thanks to everyone who came down. More nights like this soon.
#SpecialRider #LondonBookEvents #WillSelf #IndependentBookshop
From last night’s evening at @specialriderbooksandrecords in @shepherdsbushmarket , #willself and @jackaldane discuss Will’s new novel #thequantitytheoryofmorality before a sell-out crowd. #fyp #foryoupage💙 #bookstagram
Listen to the full conversation in May with a brand new episode
The sun is setting, the show is starting. @bookingclubpod goes live with #willself tonight at @specialriderbooksandrecords #fyp #foryoupage💙 #bookstagram #quantitytheoryofmorality
