The Lonely Letters

· Tantor Media Inc · Berättare: Benjamin Charles
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In The Lonely Letters, A tells Moth: "Writing about and thinking with joy is what sustains me, daily. It nourishes me. I do not write about joy primarily because I always have it. I write about joy, Black joy, because I want to generate it, I want it to emerge, I want to participate in its constant unfolding." But alongside joy, A admits to Moth, come loneliness, exclusion, and unfulfilled desire. The Lonely Letters is an epistolary blackqueer critique of the normative world in which Ashon T. Crawley-writing as A-meditates on the interrelation of blackqueer life, sounds of the Black church, theology, mysticism, and love. Throughout his letters, A explores blackness and queerness in the musical and embodied experience of Blackpentecostal spaces and the potential for platonic and erotic connection in a world that conspires against blackqueer life. Both a rigorous study and a performance, The Lonely Letters gestures toward understanding the capacity for what we study to work on us, to transform us, and to change how we inhabit the world.

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Ashon T. Crawley is associate professor of religious studies and African American studies at the University of Virginia and author of Blackpentecostal Breath: The Aesthetics of Possibility.

Benjamin Charles is a Bahamian-born, Brooklyn-based narrator, mindfulness meditator, and marathoner. He's voiced titles for Audible, Podium, Random House, and more.

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