When Artists Write Letters
Barbara Newman’s fascinating book titled Making Love in the Twelfth Century: “Letters of Two Lovers” in Context was written for scholars and academics but will be cherished by anyone who loves a good love letter. The letters referenced in the title constitute the…
A group of students from the Educational Center Analia Franco, in Caceres, Mato Grosso, Brazil, sent me a wonderful message, via these photographs.
Yes, reading is a passion in Brazil!
Great news for cat lovers and book lovers! Welcome Home, Bernard Socks, the sequel to The Story of Fester Cat will be released this week. The second installation in Paul Magrs’ series about the cats in his life (and we want more!) is titled Welcome Home, Bernard Socks. It tells the…
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…
The novel Radiance of Tomorrow by Ishmael Beah is a brilliant book, not in terms of innovation or style, but in terms of illumination — and there is no better brilliance for a book, or for an author. In telling the story of the village Imperi and its inhabitants, Beah’s…
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…
In what is clearly (and beautifully) a labor of love, brothers David Henry and Joe Henry have brought Richard Pryor back to pulsating…
