Other People's Mail is the first anthology of its kind: a collection of stories that are all in letter form. Why letters? Because the letter tale is so distinctive, so inventive, so ingenious that writers have always found it compelling, and they know that readers do as well. Who, after all, is immune to the seduction of reading other people's mail?

Edited and with an introduction by Gail Pool

Contents:

• A Wilderness Station by Alice Munro
• Letters from the Samantha by Mark Helprin
• The Death of Bed Number 12 by Ghassan Kanafani
• Evil Star by Ray Russell
• The Rise and Fall of Mortimer Scrivens by A. A. Milne
• Man of Letters by Stephen Dixon
• False Lights by Gail Godwin
• Simple Arithmetic by Virginia Moriconi
• Quitting Smoking by Reginald McKnight
• Correspondence by Donna Kline
• Water by Torgny Lindgren
• Peter’s Buddies by Michael Carson
• Back on April Eleventh by Hubert Aquin
• Letter to a Young Lady in Paris by Julio Cortázar
• Letter from His Father by Nadine Gordimer
• A Letter from Home by Doris Lessing
• Auschwitz, Our Home (A Letter) by Tadeusz Borowski