Publishers Weekly let me muse on letters as a genre on their PWxyz blog - did you know Amazon classifies letter collections in a category that's a subset of essays?
Here's the piece, in which I also ask biographer extraordinaire Patricia O'Toole why people read letter collections and what drew her to them as an aspiring writer. Check out my list of some noteworthy collections published in 2013. I'd love to know your thoughts!
