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Distant intimacy : a friendship in the age of the Internet

Raphael, Frederic, 1931-, Epstein, Joseph, 1937-

2013

Overview

\"Despite the authors never having met in person, Raphael (\"The Glittering Prizes\") and Epstein (\"Fred Astaire; Gossip: The Untrivial Pursuit\") embark on a transatlantic project to document a year's correspondence over the Internet. Averaging 3,500 words a week, the authors riff on topics limning their personal and professional lives, such as education, family, their Chicago roots, and shared literary, artistic, and political interests. In the end, Raphael and Epstein built a lasting friendship through writing playful, serious, and irreverent entries that celebrate a mutual love of language and show how digital correspondence need not be perfunctory or without substance. In Epstein's words, 'Reading over what we wrote to each other over the past year, I discovered a fine exuberance in it.'\"--Library Journal.

• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Subject: Raphael, Frederic, 1931- Correspondence. / Epstein, Joseph, 1937- Correspondence. / Electronic mail messages. / LITERARY COLLECTIONS - Letters.
• ISBN: 9780300186949, 0300186940

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
PR6068.A6 Z48 2013	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE