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Letters of Note: 'Yours Ever'

YoursEver_250.jpgSATURDAY: Although our diaries and letters are now online and go by different names, we're no less committed as a society to expressing our daily lives through words than we were 200 years ago. And social networking makes it all too clear that the only thing we love more than keeping diaries and writing letters is reading those that belong to other people.

Snooping? Maybe. We like to think of it as "searching for a window into someone else's soul," but you can be mean about it if you want to.

In "Yours Ever: People and Their Letters," Thomas Mallon has compiled a fascinating and detailed look into the private correspondence of notable historical figures, such as Sacco and Vanzetti, Madame de Sevigne and F. Scott Fitzgerald. He'll be speaking this weekend at Politics and Prose.


» Politics and Prose, 5015 Connecticut Ave. NW; Sat., Nov. 21, 1 p.m, free; 202-364-1919. (Van Ness)

Written by Express' Anne Polsky
Photo courtesy Pantheon

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