‘Mettlework’ Excavates Myths of American Motherhood
Poet and author Jessica E. Johnson’s memoir Mettlework excavates myths of motherhood and girlhood in mining towns across America.
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On Rainer Maria Rilke’s Letters on Loss: ‘The Dark Interval’
Letter-writing allowed Rainer Maria Rilke to turn intimate one-on-one communication into a carefully-crafted artifact in its own right that transcended time itself.
‘The Letters of Richard P. Feynman’ Delights with the Physicist’s Mastery of the Epistolary Format
Physicist Richard P. Feynman had the exceptional ability to write about the most obtuse areas of science while telling a damn good story, often with irreverence or silliness.