AUTHOR INTERVIEW: Simon Sebag Montefiore reveals his passion for a form of writing that will never die
Carefully selected anthology offers a glimpse into histories you might never have known and new aspects of histories you know all too well
27 June 2019 - 05:08
A written letter conjures up a feeling of nostalgia. It is a raw form of communication, demanding far more effort than typing out a WhatsApp with the swoop of your thumb. It posits the writer in a space to ponder and craft, demanding thought and planning and a very real understanding of emotion.
“Letters are the literary antidote to the ephemerality of life,” as Simon Seabag Montefiore writes in the introduction of his latest contribution to the world of books, Written in History: Letters that Changed the World. ..
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