Channeling the voice of Tamsen through her extant correspondence, Burton deconstructs the Donners' journey through a tumble of journal entries, letters and death notations in the family Bible.
"Mortified" is a stage show out of Los Angeles that plays adolescent diary entries, letters, and other awkward bits of ephemera for laughs.
Testimonies from people who believe in his holiness, and today pray to him for divine intercession, are also included, along with journal entries, letters, photographs and newspaper clippings.
The diary entries, letters and poems in the memoir are said to provide an intimate look at the man, whose gender politics at home were anything but radical.
Readers are immersed in the location but also engaged by a mystery that unfolds through newspaper articles, diary entries, letters, interview transcripts, and some good old-fashioned snooping.
In the case of a historical figure, there is usually a standard biographical interpretation, constructed around a small number of details: diary entries, letters, anecdotes, passages in the published work that everyone has decided must be autobiographical.
A lattice of cross-referencing diary entries, letters, news reports, transcribed audio recordings and suchlike, it could be from some stylised contemporary novel, something self-consciously detached and disjointed.
Dracula marries many genre archetypes; Stoker followed the example of Frankenstein (and also the work of Wilkie Collins), to narrate his story through a collage of diary entries, letters, newspaper cuttings etc.
The book is compiled of short diary-like entries, letters, excerpts from "The Girl Scout Handbook," and case worker files.
So by day, I would dictate certain diary entries, letters, or poems into a tape recorder and then faithfully transcribe them by night.
