The first, posthumous collection of David Foster Wallace's nonfiction work, spanning 20 years. Personal correspondence written over a sixty year period to high school friends, family and other writers.īoth Flesh and Not - Essays by David Foster Wallace Kurt Vonnegut Letters edited by Dan Wakefield Ross M.D.Ī Harvard Medical School professor discusses in sometimes gruesome detail, Milton's blindness, Swift's deafness and dementia and the various maladies of Bronte, Hawthorne, Melville, Yeats, Joyce and Orwell. Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough, The Medical Lives of Famous Writers by John J. A mind not informed by the thoughtful product of the novel, the play, the poem, will be capable perhaps of administering the affairs of a people, maintaining the status quo, but not of truly leading that people.' Why did Martel do this? Martel contends that literature is 'an essential element to a deep thinking, fully feeling mind. Inside the cover of each book was a letter in which Martel discussed the literary work.
101 Letters to a Prime Minister, The complete letters to Stephen HarperĮvery two weeks, for almost two years, Canadian author, Yann Martel ( Life of Pi) mailed a book to Prime Minister Stephen Harper.
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