When Artists Write Letters
Seven Great Books About Letters
Royko In Love: Mike’s Letters to Carol by Mike Royko, edited by David Royko — Yes, that Mike Roykop, tough and cynical newspaper columnist — it turns out he had a sweet and vulnerable heart as a young man in the Air Force and he wooed…
In 1907, E.V. Lucas published a lovely collection of letters under the title, The Gentlest Art. Letter writing is the art referred to and the letters chosen by Lucas illustrate his point of gentility — and of beauty.
Robert Burns is a favorite poet of mine. I don’t know which came first, my fascination with Scotland or with Burns, but one feeds the other and I am besotted.
Through his poems, Burns takes me to Scotland — “Yon wild mossy mountains sae…
I was made an honorary member of the Letter Writers Alliance, a fabulous group that supports letter writing. And loved my book, which is great: “This is one of the best books on letters and the love of letters that I have read in a while. It’s not…
My book Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Celebrating the Joys of Letter Writing is released today. My first reading will take place on April 24th…
How did this happen? How could I have missed this fantastic collection of letters about cricket? In my quest to understand just why letters are so important a mode of communication, surely letters to the editors of the Daily Telegraph on the subject of cricket would have provided some insight.
Shaun Usher understands the art of letter writing — as any fan of his site, Letters of Note, knows — and now his book by the same name brings all that art to the printed page. Letters of Note, the book, is beautiful, large-size, fabulously produced, and above all, it is…
Dostoyevsky’s first novel, Poor Folk, published when he was just twenty-four years old, is completely composed of the letters exchanged…
Mary Shelley wrote the most famous monster story of all time, Frankenstein. Or did she really? That question is just one of the literary mysteries explored by Lynn Shepherd in her mesmerizing novel, A Fatal Likeness. Was Percy Bysshe Shelley insane or cruelly narcissistic or simply…
