Yours Ever: People and Their Letters

In this long awaited follow-up to his classic A Book of One's Own: People and Their Diaries, Thomas Mallon offers a remarkable epistolary anthology, with commentary. The best bedside book of the season.

 

May 25: On this day in 1938 Raymond Carver was born. Carver's poem "Luck," about a nine-year-old who wakes to an empty house and the leftovers of his parents' party, is all too autobiographical: "What luck, I thought. / Years later,…

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