OTHER PEOPLE'S MAIL
AN ANTHOLOGY OF LETTER STORIES
Seventeen modern stories, all in the form of letters--You've Got Mail!

Edited with an Introduction by Gail Pool  University of Missouri Press 288 pages, $16.95 paper ISBN 0-8262-1246-8 Contents: A Wilderness Station, by Alice Munro Letters from the Samantha, by Mark Helprin The Death of Bed Number 12, by Ghassan Kanafani     Evil Star, by Ray Russell  The Rise and Fall of Mortimer Scrivens, by A. A. Milne     Man of Letters, by Stephen Dixon False Lights, by Gail Godwin     Simple Arithmetic, by Virginia Moriconi Quitting Smoking, by Reginald McKnight     Correspondence, by Donna Kline Water, by Torgny Lindgren     Peter's Buddies, by Michael Carson Back on April Eleventh, by Hubert Aquin     Letter to a Young Lady in Paris, by Julio Cortázar Letter from His Father, by Nadine Gordimer     A Letter from Home, by Doris Lessing Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter), by Tadeusz Borowski

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Other People's Mail

"Captivating stories in an anthology of epistolary fiction from the last 50 years...Pool proves the
letter story to be a truly modern, and perhaps even postmodern, form of prose."--Kirkus.

"The pieces live up to the intriguing promise of the title, drawing the reader into the intimate circle that is the epistolary tale."--Publishers Weekly

"Every one of [these stories] is wickedly absorbing."--Katherine A. Powers, Boston Sunday Globe

"Other People's Mail...shows the way a plot may emerge in salutations and asides, revisions and postscripts."--Carolyn Alessio, deputy literary editor, Chicago Tribune.

"This collection is unique...Editor Pool has selected stories from a remarkably diverse collection of stories...Some stories are comic, some serious, and some tragic.  The result is an entertaining and moving collection."--Danise Hoover, Booklist.

"The best of the stories are gems and make Other People's Mail an extraordinarily valuable book to have on the shelf. Other People's Mail is an anthology that needs to exist."
--Eric Miles Williamson, American Book Review.

"Other People's Mail...not only brings together great writing talents...it gives us a way to examine more closely the tools and techniques of a specific form."--Christopher Tinney, Rain Taxi

"A lively and entertaining anthology."--Sylvia Brownrigg, Newsday.

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