THE LETTERS PAGE
Book Ex Machina presents:
The Letters Page, Vol. 1!
We are super excited to introduce you to the first ever printed anthology of
The Letters Page. We are beyond excited about this! We have taken the excellent The Letters Page, a digital literary journal in letters, and turned it into a physical object.
This beautiful limited edition boxed set contains:
An illustrated book anthology of selected letters from The Letters Page's first seven issues, edited by Jon McGregor, with letters from George Saunders, Andrey Kurkov, Naomi Alderman, Kevin Barry, Joanna Walsh, and others; as well as a selection of brand new letters published here for the first time.
Loose-leaf reproductions of the writers' original handwritten letters, on specialty papers.
Contents:
Letters from: George Saunders, Clare Wigfall, Éireann Lorsung, Joanna Walsh, Andrey Kurkov, Naomi Alderman, Sam Riviere, Cassie Gonzales, Kevin Barry, Karen McLeod, Claudia Reed, S E Craythorne, Maria Papas, and Ken Sears.
Letter from the editor, Jon McGregor.
Reproductions of original handwritten letters by George Saunders, Clare Wigfall, Éireann Lorsung, Andrey Kurkov, Naomi Alderman, Cassie Gonzales, and Jon McGregor.
Bonus: typographic portraits of the writers, made from with their own words.
Limited Edition: 500 copies very few copies left! Get yours while supplies last!
About the editor
Jon McGregor is a professor of creative writing at the University of Nottingham where he founded and edits The Letters Page. He has written four novels and a collection of stories, including Even the Dogs, winner of the 2012 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. His novel, Reservoir 13, won the 2017 Costa Book Award.
About The Letters Page
The Letters Page was founded and is edited by Jon McGregor at the University of Nottingham and publishes letters from all over the world.
“I’m a big fan of The Letters Page. Texts and emails are fine but there’s nothing like a handwritten letter.” —Roddy Doyle
“In a landscape of ever-increasing homogeneity, The Letters Page is a joyful oddity—an eccentric delight.”
—Mick Jackson
“This is such a beautiful thing—a love letter to letters.”—Simon Prosser, Hamish Hamilton
“Letter writing may be a dying art, but the imaginative and creative range of this collection shows there’s much life in it yet.” —The Irish Times
From me, with love: the lost art of letter writing
“A letter always arrives from the past… You wait for a letter to arrive. You wait for a reply. In the time it takes for the letter to reach its destination, anything can happen: minds be changed, lives lost, loves discovered.” —Jon McGregor
Read Jon's letter about The Letters Page in the Guardian
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