Collective X: Slayeth!

Letters of Love from and for Queer Black Folxs. D 2022, 96 pp., pb, € 8.30
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This intimate collection of letters from Queer Black writers from the diaspora is a declaration of love to the beauty, strength, and resilience of their ancestors - past and present - as they continue to carve their own way into the future. Each letter provides a space for the reader to feel seen, heard, and comforted through prose. Each page ... Weiterlesen

Tove Jansson: Letters from Tove

UK 2019, 496 pp., brochure, € 24.95
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Sort of
Out of the thousands of letters Tove Jansson wrote a cache remains that she addressed to her family, her dearest confidantes, and her lovers, male and female. Into these she spilled her innermost thoughts, defended her ideals and revealed her heart. To read these letters is both an act of startling intimacy and a rare privilege. Penned with grace and ... Weiterlesen

Marina Kostalevsky: The Tchaikovsky Papers

UK 2018, 296 pp., hardbound, € 79.95
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Yale University Press
This fascinating collection of letters, notes, and miscellanea from the archives of the Tchaikovsky State House-Museum sheds new light on the world of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Most of these documents have never before been available in English, and they reveal the composer's daily concerns, private thoughts, and playful sense of humor. Often intimate and sometimes bawdy, these texts also offer ... Weiterlesen

Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy: The Animals

Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy. UK 2014, 528 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Vintage
In 1952, Christopher Isherwood (the middle-aged British author of »Goodbye to Berlin«) met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach. Defying convention, the two created an enduring relationship out of that initial spark - living as an openly gay couple for more than three decades in the closeted world of Hollywood. »The Animals« is the testimony in ... Weiterlesen

Katherine Bucknell (ed.): The Animals. Love Letters Between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy

USA 2013, 482 pp., hardbound, € 34.95
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Christopher Isherwood was the celebrated middle-aged English author of »Goodbye to Berlin« when he met the Californian teenager Don Bachardy on a Santa Monica beach in 1952. Defying convention, the two created an enduring relationship out of that initial spark - living as an openly gay couple for more than three decades in the closeted world of Hollywood. »The Animals« ... Weiterlesen

William S. Burroughs / Bill Morgan (ed.): Rub Out the Words

Letters 1959 - 1974. UK 2012, 444 pp., brochure, € 18.99
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Penguin UK
William Burroughs' life was often as extreme as his prose. The second volume of his letters documents the time after the notorious publication of »Naked Lunch« in 1959, as he drifted away from the Beats and on towards new experiences in Europe and North Africa. We see the artist and pioneer of the cut-up method, Brion Gysin, gradually replace Ginsberg ... Weiterlesen

Bill Morgan and David Stanford (eds.): Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters

USA 2012, 500 pp., brochure, € 22.95
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Penguin USA
Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg are the most celebrated members of the literary movement called the Beat Generation, linked together not only by their shared sensibility but also by a deep and abiding friendship, one that colored their lives and greatly affected their writing. Extraordinary in its range, quality, and intimacy the correspondence between the two of them began shortly ... Weiterlesen

Merlin Holland: Oscar Wilde

USA 2007, 384 pp., cloth, € 26.69
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Merlin Holland's »Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters« is, in effect, a selected letters, 384 manageable pages rather than the 1,270 of the »Complete Letters«. This has necessitated the omission of »De profundis«, all 50,000 words of it. That apart, it is a judicious and representative selection. Telling the Wilde story in his own words, this is a calm approach ... Weiterlesen

Paul Levy (ed.): The Letters of Lytton Strachey

UK 2005, 698 pp., brochure, € 25.99
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Critic, intellectual, gossip and sexual libertine who towered over the early twentieth-century literature, Lytton Strachey once referred to many of the letters in the collection as »a parcel of dynamite!«. And rightly so: his profilic output is shot through with an acerbic wit and sardonic humor and offers a vivid, behind-the-scenes account of his secret life, including his friendship with ... Weiterlesen