Letters With Character - An Interactive Literary Environment

Dear Mr. Herzog,

I suppose we all become overwhelmed at times by the desire to explain, to plead, to pronounce. And to ask. Ever to ask. But we do not merely ask; we burn with the desire of knowing. We ache from the knowledge that what we seek is unknowable and we scream our questions, ever into the abyss.

But I think I know what's eating you.

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SIncerely,
Jess Walter

via letterswithcharacter.blogspot.com

Harper Perennial has launched an interactive project inviting you to write a letter to a fictional character

Harper Perennial's blog The Olive Reader describes the project:

'Before there was any fiction at all, there were letters. For centuries, letters were the only way for people in different locations to communicate with each other. But letters have also become a rich and complex element of the best literary fiction. The acclaimed author and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman explores how letters function in life, as well as how they function in fiction in his new collection of inter-linked stories What He’s Poised to Do.

“Ben Greenman’s masterwork of stories inspired by letters offers fresh insight into the mysteries of intimacy.”
—Simon Van Booy.

On the occasion of the book’s publication, and in celebration of the art of the letter as a form of fiction, Harper Perennial invites you to participate in its Letters With Character campaign, and to write a letter to a fictional character. The letters can be funny, sad, demanding, fanciful, declarative, or trivial. They can be about a novel, a short story, or a children’s book, works both literary or popular. There is only one requirement: They must be written by a real person and must also address an unreal one.

The best, most interesting, strangest, and most moving letters will be collected on LettersWithCharacter.blogspot.com. Visit the site to see a selection of those that have already been written: a romantic appeal to Captain Ahab, a moving consideration of middle age addressed to a Garcia Marquez heroine, a hilarious challenge to Agatha Christie’s famed detective Hercule Poirot.

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