Epistolary Memoir, An Old Genre Having A New Heyday
The recounting of a life in the form of a letter may go all the way back to Benjamin Franklin, but it's currently seeing a revival, kicked off by Ta-Nehisi Coates's Between the World and Me and carried by major works by Imani Perry, Terese Marie Mailhot, Ocean Vuong, and others. "The new epistolary memoirs, […]