Shaun Usher is a writer and sole custodian of the popular blogs
www.lettersofnote.com and www.listsofnote.com. He has transformed
both blogs into bestselling books, crowd-funded by Unbound and
jointly published by Unbound and Canongate. He lives in Wilmslow
with his wife Karina and their two sons. He is the author of the
bestselling Letters of Note, More Letters of Note and Lists of
Note. Along with Simon Garfield's To the Letter, Letters of Note
inspired Letters Live, a series of live performances celebrating
the enduring power of literary correspondence, with great
performers reading remarkable letters to a live audience.
www.lettersofnote.com
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Another mailbag stuffed with funny, heartbreaking and passionate
letters . . . engaging, eclectic, geekily and gleefully
enthusiastic and laugh-out-loud funny
* * The Times * *
Shaun Usher's More Letters of Note mines the archives for more gems
of the epistolary arts
* * Guardian * *
Funny, shocking and poignant, More Letters of Note must be one of
the most entertaining books of the year
* * Financial Times * *
From the genuinely funny: Marge Simpson duelling with First Lady
Barbara Bush to the truly heart-breaking: Julius and Ethel
Rosenberg's last goodbye to their children before execution.
Usher's book is unlike anything else you have read. After all,
where else can you find out why Norman Mailer refused money to his
father, or how Janis Joplin felt before breaking America?
Exactly
* * GQ * *
Some of the letters will make you laugh, other heartbreaking
examples will make you cry
* * Independent * *
Reading through them is addictive, like dipping into a bag of
variously tempting assorted candies, knowing that the next one will
always bring surprise and pleasure. Usher has an evident knack for
selecting letters that land with the force of a good short story,
with personalities and dramatic arcs emerging swiftly, from just a
page or two. Many of the writers are famous people, caught in a
moment of accessibility and rawness or off-the-cuff virtuosity
* * New Yorker * *
A gloriously presented compilation
* * Financial Times * *
The literary equivalent of a box of chocolates - bite-sized and
pure addictive pleasure . . . The result is beautifully produced,
with photographs and colour facsimiles of much of the
correspondence. A gorgeous Christmas present
* * Sunday Times * *
Open the pages of the anthology and the appeal is immediately
obvious
* * Observer * *
It is inspiring, and often sad, funny, and occasionally quite
surreal
* * GQ * *
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