When we weren't together we wrote each other long detailed letters about such weighty matters as which boy we liked and the best way to get rid of zits.
But soon, they were writing each other daily: about whirling dervishes, 17-year locusts, puberty, Faust, quitting smoking, Paganini and Interview with a Vampire.
I think that was the opportunity for conversation that was missed [in Shriver's speech]... How do we feel about writing each other's stories and how do we go about it?
To give just a sample of the subjects McCarthy and Arendt talked and wrote to each other about: George Eliot, Cartesianism, Eldridge Cleaver, Kant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Sartre.
E-mail address GO SIGN UP Share Tweet To give just a sample of the subjects McCarthy and Arendt talked and wrote to each other about: George Eliot, Cartesianism, Eldridge Cleaver, Kant, G. Gordon Liddy, and Sartre.
Indeed, on one level, reading the book is an exercise in frustration for me — I keep looking at dishes and thinking, "That sounds like something I'd do; why didn't I?" I have musician friends who joke about having written each other's songs, and now I know how that feels.
A startling thing in Lewis's letters to other believers is how much energy and practical advice is dispensed about how to keep your belief going: they are constantly writing to each other about the state of their beliefs, as chronic sinus sufferers might write to each other about the state of their noses.
They were writing to each other about the route the war was taking.
In the end, we find Harriet and Maeve, years later, writing to each other about that horrendous night.
Until then, they will write to each other about their prayers and wishes in their notebook where, on paper, everything is perfect.
In 2008, after what you imagine was a tired and emotional dinner, the novelist Michel Houellebecq and the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy determined to start writing to each other about the things that kept them awake at nights.
