The Letters We Never Sent
The Letters We Never Sent

Author: Maya Staples

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2018-04-19

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 9781981520176

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Sometimes the best possible future starts with goodbye... Evoking a sense of intimate nostalgia, this collection of letters - never sent and never read - offers a window into the lives of strangers at once immediately familiar and yet also out of reach. Like a gift of secrets, this memorable collection explores romances, friendships, and family relationships with truth, humor, and authenticity, ultimately coming together into a celebration of the self. From the enthusiasm of first love to the cynicism of first regret, The Letters We Never Sent is a haunting confession of passion, fear, hope, and possibility...

The Whalestoe Letters
The Whalestoe Letters

Author: Mark Z. Danielewski

Publisher: Pantheon

Published: 2000-10-10

Total Pages: 106

ISBN-13: 0375714413

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Between 1982 and 1989, Pelafina H. Lièvre sent her son, Johnny Truant, a series of letters from The Three Attic Whalestoe Institute, a psychiatric facility in Ohio where she spent the final years of her life. Beautiful, heartfelt, and tragic, this correspondence reveals the powerful and deeply moving relationship between a brilliant though mentally ill mother and the precocious, gifted young son she never ceases to love. Originally contained within the monumental House of Leaves, this collection stands alone as a stunning portrait of mother and child. It is presented here along with a foreword by Walden D. Wyhrta and eleven previously unavailable letters.

The Groucho Letters
The Groucho Letters

Author: Groucho Marx

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2007-08-14

Total Pages: 324

ISBN-13: 1416536035

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Donated to the Library of Congress in the mid-1960s, Groucho Marx's correspondence was first crafted into this celebration of wit and wisdom in 1967. Reissued today with his original letters and humor intact, The Groucho Letters exposes one of the twentieth century's most beloved comedian's private insights into show biz, politics, business, and, of course, his illustrious personal life. Included are Marx's conversations with such noted personalities as E. B. White, Fred Allen, Goodman Ace, Nunnally Johnson, James Thurber, Booth Tarkington, Alistair Cooke, Harry Truman, Irving Berlin, and S. J. Perelman. To Confidential Magazine Gentlemen: If you continue to publish slanderous pieces about me, I shall feel compelled to cancel my subscription. Sincerely, Groucho Marx

If You Find This Letter
If You Find This Letter

Author: Hannah Brencher

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2016-04-19

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 1476784108

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"A ... memoir of love and faith from Hannah Brencher ... who has dedicated her life to showing total strangers that they are not alone in the world. Fresh out of college, Hannah Brencher moved to New York, expecting her life to look like a scene from Sex and the City. Instead, she found a city full of people who knew where they were going and what they were doing ... Lonely and depressed, she noticed a woman who looked like she felt the same way on the subway. Hannah did something strange--she wrote the woman a letter. She folded it, scribbled 'If you find this letter, it's for you...' on the front and left it behind. When she realized that it made her feel better, she started writing and leaving love notes all over the city ... [eventually sending 400 handwritten letters as a result of an Internet post and starting the website The World Needs More Love Letters]"--

A Letter to My Mom
A Letter to My Mom

Author: Lisa Erspamer

Publisher: Crown/Archetype

Published: 2015-04-07

Total Pages: 162

ISBN-13: 0804139687

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Including letters from Melissa Rivers, Shania Twain, will.i.am, Christy Turlington, and Kristin Chenoweth Just in time for Mother's Day, the next book in the A Letter to My series (after A Letter to My Dog and A Letter to My Cat) takes on mothers, with celebrities and civilians writing letters of gratitude and admiration to the women who raised them, alongside gorgeous, intimate photos.

Open Me Carefully
Open Me Carefully

Author: Emily Dickinson

Publisher: Wesleyan University Press

Published: 1998-10-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 081950033X

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The 19th–century American poet’s uncensored and breathtaking letters, poems, and letter-poems to her sister-in-law and childhood friend. For the first time, selections from Emily Dickinson’s thirty-six year correspondence with her childhood friend, neighbor, and sister-in-law, Susan Huntington Dickinson, are compiled in a single volume. Open Me Carefully invites a dramatic new understanding of Emily Dickinson’s life and work, overcoming a century of censorship and misinterpretation. For the millions of readers who love Emily Dickinson’s poetry, Open Me Carefully brings new light to the meaning of the poet’s life and work. Gone is Emily as lonely spinster; here is Dickinson in her own words, passionate and fully alive. Praise for Open Me Carefully “With spare commentary, Smith . . . and Hart . . . let these letters speak for themselves. Most important, unlike previous editors who altered line breaks to fit their sense of what is poetry or prose, Hart and Smith offer faithful reproductions of the letters’ genre-defying form as the words unravel spectacularly down the original page.” —Renee Tursi, The New York Times Book Review

The Letters of The Younger Pliny
The Letters of The Younger Pliny

Author: the younger Pliny

Publisher: Lebooks Editora

Published: 2024-06-17

Total Pages: 355

ISBN-13: 6558942380

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The Letters of Pliny the Younger, also known as the Epistles of Pliny the Younger, have been studied for centuries, as they offer a unique and intimate glimpse into the daily life of Romans in the 1st century AD. Through his letters, the Roman writer and lawyer Pliny the Younger (whose full name was Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus) discusses philosophical and moral issues; but he also talks about everyday matters and topics related to his administrative duties. One of these letters, Letter 16 from Book VI, addressed to Tacitus, holds unparalleled historical value. In it, Pliny describes the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, which destroyed the city of Pompeii. Many scholars claim that with his letters, Pliny invented a new literary genre: the letter written not only to establish pleasant communication with peers but also to publish it later. Pliny compiled copies of every letter he wrote throughout his life and published those he considered the best in twelve books. This edition presents selected letters chosen for their various characteristics and covering several books, focusing mainly on Books I, II, and III. The work is part of the famous collection: 501 Books You Must Read.