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Letters
The Letters of Mavis Gallant to Her Editor
A small archive at the New York Public Library holds Mavis Gallant's working correspondence with her New Yorker editor across thirty-four years. The letters are an education in how a story gets made.
Letters
Fan Letters to the Dead
A small archive at a Welsh public library holds eighteen hundred letters written to authors who could not read them. The collection is stranger and more honest than it sounds.
Letters
The Borges Translators of Rosario and Utrecht
For twenty-seven years, an Argentine architect and a Dutch civil servant exchanged drafts of the same Borges stories. The archive is now at a small university in Saskatchewan.