/lit/ - Literature

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The last book Letters Home is extremely personal, which shouldn’t have surprised me but it still did. It contains hundreds of pages of letters he sent back to his family while he was stationed in the Korean War. So often we are not privy to the lives of authors, they seem so distant from their works we enjoy, especially Wolfe, who I’m sure some of you know won the award for “writer most unlike his characters” by his colleagues at sff conventions or something to that effect. Yet if Severian’s main arc in BoTNS is a young man on a journey to war, as Wolfe has attested to before, then I believe this book might have more insight into author/MC connection than his colleagues may have realized.
I will only post the first letter home because this book is a lot larger than I anticipated. I haven’t looked through most of it yet but I will skim through it in the coming days and if I find any letters that stand out I will try to post them.