Phil Baker guides us through the morbid, wistful and yet immensely charming world of the writer and illustrator Edward Gorey; Frances Wilson weighs the pleasures and pains of letter and email writing; Ian Sansom on the struggle to be funny
Books
Born To Be Posthumous: The eccentric life and mysterious genius of Edward Gorey, by Mark Dery
What a Hazard a Letter Is: The strange destiny of the unsent letter, by Caroline Atkins
Written In History: Letters that changed the world, by Simon Sebag Montefiore
In Their Own Words: Volume 2: More letters from history
Wit's End: What wit is, how it works, and why we need it, by James Geary
Messing About In Quotes: A little Oxford dictionary of humorous quotations, compiled by Gyles Brandreth
Better to Travel Hopefully
Super Furry Animals
Power Plays
Unjust Deserts
Time Past and Time Future
Illustrated Men
O Pioneers!
Between The Sheets
A Worm’s-eye View
Revivals
Cometh the Hour
Flights of Fantasy
In Conversation with Richard Sennett
All the World's a Stage
Splendid Isolation
Class Struggles
Energy Creation
Out Of Our Minds
Turning Leaves: Dame Penelope Lively and Josephine Lively
A Cure for Twixmas
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