A Conversation with Frank Warren

I'm so proud that we can offer a second interview with Frank Warren of PostSecret; it's hard to believe the first one (which you can watch below if you like) took place over two years ago. Warren, who began the PostSecret project right here in the DC area, is now the figurehead for a website, project, and lecture series that has captivated people across the nation.

PostSecret works like this: People are invited to send anonymous postcards bearing a secret, decorated in any or no way, to Warren's Germantown, MD home address (it's still the same, which is remarkable). The original postcards Warren printed up were quite plain, and soon he started getting cards returned that had sketches, paintings, collages, and more on them. In the five PostSecret books, including the new "PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death, and God," the postcards are displayed in all of their glory (while almost all of them are two-dimensional, Warren has received objects, too, like the bag of coffee beans with a secret printed on it). 

As you'll hear in this interview, when Warren started his project he was working for a suicide hotline. He has raised awareness and dollars for suicide prevention programs all over the country, and because he believes so strongly in not exploiting anyone's secret, he takes no advertising for the support of his site or his lectures: Everything is funded through the sale of his books, which you can buy at www.postsecret.com.