letters

  • #BookBingoNW2020: Epistolary

    And then there’s that square marked “epistolary.” You’d be forgiven for Googling that one, where you’ll find it means a story told in the form of documents, such as diaries, emails, texts, and – most traditionally – letters – aka, epistles. To which you might respond “they write novels in the form of letters?” Oh… Continue reading

  • Tales of Mail: Epistolary Novels

    ~posted by Rebecca K. A previous post discussed the pleasure of writing letters. Today let’s explore letters in fiction. The epistolary novel is defined in The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms as “a novel written in the form of a series of letters exchanged among the characters of the story, with extracts from their journals sometimes… Continue reading