Letters of Note
Did you know that Noël Coward and Virginia Woolf were essentially pen pals? Are you aware that Graeme Souness once received a letter from Frank Sinatra? Would it make you gasp to learn that John Steinbeck wrote to Marilyn Monroe and asked for her autograph? Are you excited when …
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The end of 2020 is nigh, thank god, and this is my final newsletter of the year, so I first want to thank you all, again, for signing up and allowing m…
Shaun Usher
Dec 30, 2020
Today, in the first part of a new series that I literally just decided upon as I began typing this sentence, I come bearing some crucial letter-writing…
Shaun Usher
Dec 29, 2020
Louis Armstrong, signing off
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Dec 28, 2020 1
Thanking in style
Shaun Usher
Dec 26, 2020
Christmas is upon us, so I’m switching off for a few days. Given our current predicament and the widespread anguish this pandemic continues to cause, i…
Shaun Usher
Dec 23, 2020 1
Christmas 1988, on the evening of December 21st, a bomb exploded on board New York-bound Pan Am Flight 103 and ripped the aircraft apart, its wreckage …
Shaun Usher
Dec 22, 2020
For 17 years, beginning in 1947, French writer Simone de Beauvoir enjoyed a transatlantic love affair with American author Nelson Algren. Much of their…
Shaun Usher
Dec 21, 2020
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