Wanna Know a Secret?

Categories: Staff Picks , Nonfiction , Arts & Crafts

  In 2004, Frank Warren began an art project which involved leaving postcards in public places- restaurants, libraries, bus terminals- and asking people to mail them in with a secret of theirs written on the postcard. The project is ongoing, and Warren recently published some of the postcards in this fabulous collection which is at turns hilarious and devastating. Included within are secrets from ordinary people about obsessive habits, dreams never realized, undisclosed memories of abuse or confessions of furtive acts. The collection is compulsively readable, and you may be inspired to send Frank your own secret- many participants have attested to feeling unburdened after doing so...

By the way, if you enjoy this kind of voyeuristic look into the secret lives of others, you would appreciate the Found books and magazines put out by Davy Rothbart.