false 2055262 4 "Let us begin this letter, this prelude to an encounter, formally, as a declaration, in the old-fashioned way: I love you. You do not know me (although you have seen me, smiled at me). I know you (although not so well as I would like. I want to be there when your eyes flutter open in the morning, and you see me, and you smile. Surely this would be paradise enough?). So I do declare myself to you now, with pen set to paper. I declare it again: I love you."<P>Is there any communication more potent than the love letter? Is there any charge greater than seeing those words on paper? The editors of this collection decided to ask some of the most important writers of our time to compose a fictional love letter - breathing new life into a forgotten custom, and affording words themselves the power of seduction that they richly deserve. The result is an iridescent picture of what love looks like in the twenty-first century: a collage of methods and moods. Each letter is radically different from the others, and all but one are published for the first time. A perfect gift, this book is also an ingenious showcase for many of our most beloved writers.<P>Love: a vague word for an emotion so ethereal it's not always possible to demonstrate. But there still exists an assumption that experiences - and, by extension, the emotions that experiences evoke - are more resonant when you <I>write them down</i>. And it's that faith, that belief that writing down these naked, shocking, inadvisable and probably destructive feelings make them worthwhile, that powers this collection, each piece of which is a testimony to the creative powers of our leading writers today, and every piece of which will move you. 1017736 8 1 2008 Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance total:59|5:8|4:15|3:24|2:9|1:3| 59 193 130 22 1 2 false false Thu Jan 22 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Jan 19 18:30:31 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 05:58:20 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Fri Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 18:10:55 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 29 18:24:08 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jul 28 18:55:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:57:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 0 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:23:39 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 01 14:27:07 -0700 2009 0 0 false false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:24:41 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:25:51 -0800 2009 3 0 false false Sat Aug 02 19:34:14 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 19:39:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Apr 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 23:02:50 -0700 2008 Sat Apr 19 23:05:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jan 13 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:19:22 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 13 08:20:03 -0800 2009 fabulous. ]]> 4 0 true true Wed Feb 27 05:50:35 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 09:03:25 -0800 2008 Sun Feb 17 09:09:25 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 11 07:01:44 -0700 2008 Sun Oct 19 21:22:14 -0700 2008 really remember them. Several of the letters left me wishing for the story to continue, wishing that I could read the addressee's response. The mix of serious and light-he...more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 14:46:48 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 03 12:23:45 -0700 2008 Cute, fun read. Some letters more memorable than others, but all in all a very good reminder of what it's like to spill your heart out with paper and pen. My only criticism would be that there wasn't a lot of, well...love. But still I think I might start writing more letters.

Fav...more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Fri Nov 28 06:31:20 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 17 08:06:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Mar 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Mar 04 09:20:16 -0800 2008 Sat Mar 29 10:16:23 -0700 2008 more...]]> 2 0 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Apr 30 19:09:21 -0700 2008 Tue Aug 12 18:26:45 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Thu Jun 05 20:30:42 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 11:45:19 -0700 2008 3 0 false false Tue Oct 30 19:24:26 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 19:28:38 -0700 2007 3 0 false false Mon May 19 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Fri May 16 18:07:51 -0700 2008 Fri May 23 10:39:34 -0700 2008 2 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Jan 14 12:15:06 -0800 2008 Sat Jan 26 15:34:11 -0800 2008 0 0 false false Thu Oct 18 10:29:59 -0700 2007 Thu Dec 04 16:13:52 -0800 2008 3 0 false false Fri May 08 15:56:07 -0700 2009 Fri May 08 15:56:17 -0700 2009