8  Literary Friendships Told Through Letters

In 1995, I left the Elliott Bay Book Company in Seattle to teach English in Vietnam. Around that time, my friend and fellow bookseller Janet Brown traveled to Thailand to teach as well. There was no email then, and overseas phone calls were a luxury. So we wrote to one another, meditating on the countries […] The post 8  Literary Friendships Told Through Letters appeared first on Electric Literature. Continue reading at 'Electric Literature'

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The Book Club of My Dreams Was at the Library All Along

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