Colum McCann’s “Letters to a Young Writer”
This week, for class, I read four different letters in Colum McCann’s Letters to a Young Writer. The first letter I read, “Letter to a Young Writer,” inspires young writers…
Month: October 2022
Letters of Historical Note
This week, for class, I read the historical letter Robert E. Lee sent to Rabbi Max Michelbacher responding to the Rabbi’s petition to allow Jewish Confederate soldiers to take off…
“Can You Ever Forgive Me?”
This week, for class, I watched the biographical film, Can You Ever Forgive Me?, which is based on Lee Israel’s memoir where she confesses to forging around 400 letters, possibly…
A Dog’s Perspective
Dear non-dog who takes care of me, I am writing this letter because I am almost two-years-old and I can’t help but wonder why you non-dogs are so… odd? Don’t…
Epistolary Short Stories
This week, for class, I read the epistolary short story, “The Gift,” from Emma Donoghue’s novel, Astray. “The Gift” was a series of letters sent back and forth between a…
Love Letters
In class, this week, we focused on love letters–specifically love letters from World War II soldiers communicating with their loved ones back home. The love letter–or in this case, collection…
Letters from the Holocaust: Then and Now
Even today, many writers continue to assess the horror and devastation brought by the German mass murder of the Jewish people in Europe in the late 1930s and early 1940s.…
