ISBN: 1665111135
ISBN 13: 9781665111133
Publication Date: October 05, 2021
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Format: Audio CD
Authors: Colleen Kinder, Leslie Jamison, Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T. Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, Peter Orner, Julia Glass, Ted Conover, Rochelle Newman-Carrasco, Hailey Sadler, Annie Schweikert, Anneke Rautenbach, Hasanthika Sirisena, Adam Reid Sexton, Diana Spechler, Caroline Lester, Kiki Petrosino, Molly Long, Amy Irvine, Lucas Mann, Sheba Karim, Amy Belk, Arielle Angel, Howard Axelrod, Akemi Johnson, Matthew Olzmann, René Clement, Erin Cavanagh, Meron Hadero, Ying Reinhardt, Rolf Potts, Julia Cooke, Rachel Pieh Jones, Craig Mod, Helen Betya Rubinstein, Anna McDonald, Meera Subramanian, Melissa Febos, Anjali Sachdeva, Alex Sheshunoff, Richard Deming, Sophie Haigney, Marcia DeSanctis, Sara Wheeler, Aviya Kushner, Will Boast, Sara Alaica, Lavina Spalding, Peter Mountford, Matthew Gavin Frank, Anna Ziegler, Darrell Hartman, Todd Hearon, Pegi Vail, Sophie Saint Thomas, Jon Arlan, Olaya Barr, Kalen Goodluck, Alexander Lumans, Tammy Danan, Sarah Goodyear, Aaron Gordon, Yi-Ling Liu, Bethany Marcel, Kateryna Babkina, Chelsea Hodson, Danial Adkison, Amy Lee Lillard, Annie Lloyd, Chaya Bhuvaneswar, Diana Hubbell, Monica Trausch, Stacy Mattingly, Emma Goldberg, Mina Hamedi, Meg Bernhard, Kumari Tilakawardane, Emily Cataneo, Jackson Barnett, Amber Meadow Adams, Roland Kelts, Rebecca Worby, Monet P. Thomas, Jorge Arangure, Rachel Veroff, Benjamin Harnett, Chelsea Ennen, Kimberly Lovato, Samantha Culp, Jason Christian, Jasmine Ledesma, John Kaufmann, Jamil Jan Kochai, Ali Francis, Heather Lanier, Divya Manikandan, Christine Evans, Sebastian Modak, Salvy Snr, Jacki DesForges, Chris Beam, Carey Baraka, Mary Emerick, Senka Marić, Kat Lewis, Lucas Schaefer, Okey Ndibe, Jina Moore, Vanessa Able, Meghan Gunn, Maija Rothenberg
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Lauren Groff, Elizabeth Kolbert, Pam Houston, Pico Iyer, T. Kira Madden, Gregory Pardlo, Maggie Shipstead, and Peter Orner are among the numerous writers who grapple with this mystery: How can an ephemeral encounter leave an eternal mark?
When Colleen Kinder put out a call for authors to “write a letter to a stranger who haunts you,” she opened the floodgates. The responses - intimate and addictive, all in the form of letters, all written in the second person - began pouring in. These short, insightful essays by today’s best literary minds are organized around such themes as Gratitude, Wonder, and Farewell, and guide us both across the globe and through the mysteries of human connection.
Best-selling author Leslie Jamison, who provides the foreword, reveals she has been haunted for years by a traveling magician she met in Nicaragua. Journalist Ted Conover writes his missive to a stranger he met on a New Yorker assignment in Rwanda. From the story of Vanessa Hua’s shoe shopper in China to the tale of Michelle Tea’s encounter in a Texas tattoo parlor, these pieces are replete with observations about how to live and what to seek, and how a stranger’s loaded glance, shared smile, or question posed can alter the course of our lives. Moving and unforgettable,
'LETTER TO A STRANGER'
is an irresistible read for any literary traveler and the perfect gift for anyone who is haunted by a person they met once but will remember forever.
