false 2055262 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2055262 4 1017736 8 1 2008 Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance total:60|5:8|4:15|3:24|2:11|1:2| 60 196 133 23 514785 3.27 60 23 514784 3.28 58 23 43644370 327621 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.30 47 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 1 2 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 16733442 41490 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 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...]]> 65341866 2572002 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 4 0 false Tue Jul 28 18:55:11 -0700 2009 Tue Jul 28 18:57:44 -0700 2009 more...]]> 65791752 1971783 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 0 0 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 29090920 550712 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 false Sat Aug 02 19:34:14 -0700 2008 Sat Aug 02 19:39:58 -0700 2008 more...]]> 77957361 2091583 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 0 0 false Mon Nov 16 08:03:04 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 03 07:44:28 -0800 2009 darker' images of love, or broken and lost love. Many are about the concept of how 'frightening' love is. Only about 1/3 through. - 12.3.09]]> 20560034 1082965 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 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...]]> 42899627 1196260 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 4 0 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. ]]> 15621628 573371 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 4 0 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...]]> 24222161 167451 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 4 0 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...]]> 34147757 1366130 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 4 0 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...]]> 38797561 857647 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 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...]]> 16985119 271355 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 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...]]> 21364075 62208 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 2 0 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 23825065 270152 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 false Thu Jun 05 20:30:42 -0700 2008 Thu Jun 12 11:45:19 -0700 2008 8460901 117462 1071179 0307396762 9780307396761 3 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: New Love Letters]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1071179.Four_Letter_Word_New_Love_Letters 3.33 9
When did you last receive a love letter? Have emails and text messages taken over from this romantic form of communication? Would a love letter by a novelist or poet be better than one written by you or me? How would the literary traits of a writer shape the love letters he or she writes? And might a love letter tell us something about its author their other writing could not?

Editors Joshua Knelman and Rosalind Porter have assembled an exciting and unique collection of new fiction: they’ve asked some of our most celebrated contemporary writers to explore the distinctive form of the love letter to remind us how enticing words can be and perhaps even to resurrect a dying custom. Each of the pieces in this anthology is radically different from the others, each is a testimony to the creative powers of our leading writers today, and each is guaranteed to seduce.

Four Letter Word brings us work from 35 of today’s best writers, including Margaret Atwood, Miriam Toews, David Bezmozgis, Douglas Coupland, Michel Faber, A.L. Kennedy, Audrey Niffenegger, Lionel Shriver, Jan Morris, Jeanette Winterson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Joseph Boyden, Panos Karnezis, Jonathan Lethem, Graham Roumieu, M.G. Vassanji and Neil Gaiman.]]> 2008 3 0 false Tue Oct 30 19:24:26 -0700 2007 Tue Oct 30 19:28:38 -0700 2007 46629513 1470575 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 2 0 false Sat Feb 14 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 17 08:24:41 -0800 2009 Thu Dec 10 08:58:31 -0800 2009 22401724 552354 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

]]> 2008 3 0 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 12500155 174742 2055262 1416569731 9781416569732 19 <![CDATA[Four Letter Word: Invented Correspondence from the Edge of Modern Romance]]> http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-111x148.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/images/nocover-60x80.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2055262.Four_Letter_Word_Invented_Correspondence_from_the_Edge_of_Modern_Romance 3.27 60 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.

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 write them down. 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.

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