Re-discovered dead letter archive offers rare insight into 17th-century life
There’s mystery and romance in the idea of an unread letter, used as a plot device by such writers as Shakespeare, Colum McCann, and Martin Amis. The recent rediscovery of… Read more »
Flannery O’Connor’s letters and papers soon to be made available to the public
“It is a pity I can’t receive my own letters. If they produce as much wholehearted approval at their destination as they do at their source, they should indeed be… Read more »
Mary Shelley’s unpublished letters reveal plumed headdress, humor, sappy stuff about her kid
Nora Crook, who is an expert on the Romantic period and professor emerita at Anglia Ruskin University, recently found thirteen unpublished letters from Mary Shelley. While she was researching another writer… Read more »
Composing yourself: on Miranda July’s We Think Alone
I found out about Miranda July’s current project, We Think Alone, through her newsletter. If I signed up, she wrote, “for the next twenty weeks you will get something pretty… Read more »
Beatrix Potter’s picture letters on display in New York
It’s been a couple weeks since I last wrote about Beatrix Potter, so I’m sure people are waiting with bated breath for the next post about her … So I’m… Read more »
A newly discovered cache of letters discovered in an Israeli archive describe the loneliness and despair of German author Hans Fallada during the Nazi era. During this time, Fallada’s writings were censored,… 4 / Read more »