Writer’s Letters is a collection of fascinating letters written by great writers, from Dickens to De Beauvoir
Michael Bird is a writer, art historian and radio broadcaster. He has published many books, essays and articles on modern and contemporary art. His books include Artists' Letters (2019) and 100 Ideas That Changed Art (2012).
Orlando Bird is a journalist who writes on art and culture, and is a regular contributor to The Telegraph and The Financial Times. He lives in London.
01. 'Got My Steam Up': Work in Progress Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Henrik Ibsen, Doris Lessing, Norman Mailer, Yukio Mishima, Sylvia Plath
02. 'In This Strange Country': Places and People Elizabeth Bishop, Charlotte Bronte, Colette, Federico Garcia Lorca, Vladimir Nabokov
03. 'My Glory Days': Writer to Writer Samuel Beckett, Anton Chekhov, Joseph Conrad, E.M. Forster, Ernest Hemingway, Toni Morrison, Iris Murdoch, V.S. Naipaul, Leo Tolstoy, William Butler Yeats, Emile Zola
04. 'The Dreadful Steel': When Troubles Come Charles Baudelaire, Walter Benjamin, Frances Burney, Miguel de Cervantes, Franz Kafka, Arthur Rimbaud, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde
05. 'I Love Your Verse': Friends and Lovers Guillaume Apollinaire, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, John Berryman, Emily Dickinson, Mary Godwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Keats, Philip Larkin, Arthur Miller, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Virginia Woolf
06. 'Yes I Am Radical': This is History George Eliot, Gustave Flaubert, Nadine Gordimer, Victor Hugo, Zora Neale Hurston, Samuel Johnson, Jack Kerouac, Siegfried Sassoon, Stendhal, Mark Twain
07. 'Too Darned Stupid': Patrons, Public, Publishers Chinua Achebe, Honoré de Balzac, Bertolt Brecht, Angela Carter, Shelagh Delaney, David Foster Wallace, Thomas Hardy, James Joyce, D.H. Lawrence, Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, George Bernard Shaw, Jonathan Swift
08. 'That's All': Last Words Lord Byron, Seamus Heaney, Katherine Mansfield, Vladimir Mayakovsky, Mary Wollstonecraft, Stefan Zweig
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