Sleeping with the Lights On | Darryl Jones | Talks at Google

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The film we just saw. The book we just read. Fear is one of the most primal human emotions, and one of the hardest to reason with and dispel. So why do we scare ourselves?

Talks at Google welcomes Darryl Jones, professor for English at Trinity College Dublin, to give us a tour of this expansive genre, discussing its history but also what its modern incarnations tell us about our generation.

Get the book here: https://goo.gl/u6WACp

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