It has been a joy to serve you for the past three years -- and it is with much regret that we announce this upcoming issue will be our last...
So, a word before I turn out the light.
https://theamericanreader.com/30-april-1963-rachel-carson-to-dorothy-freeman/
Today I thought that one had nothing to complain of so long as one lived with this dual feeling: that someone one loves is well disposed toward one, and that at the same time one had boundless po...
https://theamericanreader.com/29-april-1913-franz-kafka-to-felice-bauer/
I reached heaven and it was syrupy. / It was oppressively sweet. / Croaking substances stuck to my knees. / Of all substances St. Michael was stickiest.
https://theamericanreader.com/28-april-1959-gregory-corso-to-lawrence-ferlinghetti/
They all miss you so. Geo. Bernard Shaw’s been over here since you’ve been gone. We can go to Oak Bluffs too after the crowd goes or after they’re there. Darling, you’ll be the catch of t...
https://theamericanreader.com/24-april-1933-helene-johnson-to-dorothy-west/
I’m home again, to the extent that anybody’s really got a home anymore.
https://theamericanreader.com/23-april-1989-kurt-vonnegut-to-george-strong/
They advise me to rest. But why rest? To relax, to avoid solitude, etc., a lot of unattainable goals. I know of only one remedy: time! And besides, I’m bored thinking about myself.
https://theamericanreader.com/22-april-1875-gustave-flaubert-to-madame-roger-des-genettes-2/
The trains are badly crowded but I had a good seat both going & coming, & such comfortable downy seats & so clean that if I were a bum & could afford it I would spend my time travelling & just li...
https://theamericanreader.com/21-april-1944-marianne-moore-to-john-warner-moore/
Well now listen, God’s little flutings, I heard that Hawaiian harp which passes for your nervous system go wingdinging out into the great North night as I went flying south.
https://theamericanreader.com/20-april-1965-norman-mailer-to-edmund-skellings/
A story, even if possible stranger, was being widely circulated in the nation’s capitol tonight with regard to the identity of the presumed plotter. He is said to be Dr. Enzo Pound, a well know...
https://theamericanreader.com/17-april-1950-e-e-cummings-to-ezra-pound/
My darling, you do whatever you think, and I’ll be there come hell, high water, or the complete force of Pinkerton’s detectives.
https://theamericanreader.com/16-april-1962-ted-berrigan-to-sandy-berrigan/
Even if when I met you I had not happened to like you, I should still have been bound to change my attitude, because when you meet anyone in the flesh you realize immediately that he is a human b...
https://theamericanreader.com/15-april-1938-george-orwell-to-stephen-spender/
Here, Jean Rhys writes to friend Peggy Kirkaldy about the growing legal troubles of her third husband, Max Hamer. Hamer would soon be convicted of fraud and sent to prison. Monday Stanhope Garden...
https://theamericanreader.com/14-april-1950-jean-rhys-to-peggy-kirkaldy/
If one were to write of pale lavender clouds in a pale green sky, people would say one was drunk or imitating Conrad Aiken, and yet I have seen this here. Curses be.
https://theamericanreader.com/13-april-1922-yvor-winters-to-harriet-monroe/
Even on your own free time you cannot manage to think the thoughts you want to, and escape from the army for a while. Everywhere you look you see barracks, jeeps, rifles, soldiers, insignias and ...
https://theamericanreader.com/10-april-1944-anthony-hecht-to-his-family/