Mark your calendars for Sunday, May 27th at 3PM Central to discuss Dear Mister Rogers, Does It Ever Rain In Your Neighborhood? with special guest Betsy Siber. Please join us online for a chat and bonding time over a book that combines a beloved show with our favorite thing- the mail. You've got a little over two weeks to read it!
P.S. Kathy has resurrected the Letter Writers Alliance Instagram account. Please add it to your list for information on upcoming special events and promotions!
This Sunday we'll be discussing Winter's book club pick with L.W.A. member Alyssabeth. Tune in and chat with us live or watch the archived YouTube stream afterwards. Remember you can always add suggested books to the list on our Good Reads page.
This Sunday is our Autumn quarter book club. Please join us for a video discussion at 3PM Central time. We're talking Dracula with the Evil Supply Co. It doesn't get more seasonal than that. I should have titled this "Pumpkin Spice Book Club."
L.W.A. book club is a quarterly reading group for letter writers and mail lovers. We focus on books that have to do with mail, letters, typewriters, fountain pens, and other postal related topics. We're about a month out from our next club. Plenty of time to get your reading done and join us.
Missed a discussion? View our Past Book Club Meet-ups on YouTube.
Remember to join us for L.W.A. book club on Sunday, April 16th with a live stream on our You Tube channel at 3PM CST. Our book is The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon. We'll be joined by book suggester and L.W.A. member Emilie. Please join us. Add any questions for the discussion on the Good Reads page or save them for the group chat during the video. Looking forward to talking books about writing with you on the internet soon. Technology!
Missed a discussion? No worries! View our Past Book Club Meet-ups on YouTube.
-Donovan & Kathy
I have lots of mixed feelings about this latest installment of the L.W.A. book club. Here's a nudge to get your reading on before our discussion in a couple weeks.
Discussion: April 16th (Sunday), 3pm Central
Current Book: The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pynchon
Special Guest: L.W.A. member Emilie
Participate: On the group page on Goodreads, using #LWABookClub on Instagram and Twitter, and joining in during the online discussion.
P.S. And don't forget there's a Stamp Out Hate event today!
Remember to join us for L.W.A. book club on Sunday, January 15th with a live stream on our You Tube channel at 3PM CST. Our book is A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton. We'll be joined by Mary Robinette Kowal, author and pen pal. Please join us. Add any questions for the discussion on the Good Reads page or save them for the group chat during the video. Looking forward to talking books about writing with you on the internet soon. What a world we have!
Missed a discussion? View our Past Book Club Meet-ups on YouTube.
Discussion: Jan 15th (Sunday), 3pm Central
Current Book: Nurse at the Front, by Edith Appleton
Participate: On the group page on Goodreads, using #LWABookClub on Instagram and Twitter, and joining in during the online discussion.
-Donovan & Kathy
Last Sunday, we had a great time chatting with members, friends and pen pals Milly and Margaret about Going Postal by Terry Pratchett. If you missed us live, you can watch us above or on our You Tube channel. Our next book is A Nurse at the Front: The First World War Diaries of Sister Edith Appleton. The book club will be in January and we'll be joined by Mary Robinette Kowal. Please join us then and join the discussion. If you've got anything to add about Going Postal, we'd love to hear it. Til next time! -Donovan & Kathy
We've written before on the blog about The Letters Page, a UK-based journal composed of letters submitted by readers, writers and other letter enthusiasts. They are taking things to even greater heights by producing a printed work selected from their digital trove. The Letters Page, Vol. 1 contains selected letters from The Letters Page's first seven issues, edited by Jon McGregor, with letters from George Saunders, Andrey Kurkov, Naomi Alderman, Kevin Barry, Joanna Walsh, and others; as well as a selection of brand new letters published here for the first time. Most exciting to me is that it will also have loose-leaf reproductions of the writers' original handwritten letters, on specialty papers. That's how I like to read letters- just like letters! It is a limited edition and, lucky us, the holidays are coming. You can order your copy of The Letters Page, Vol. 1 here.
P.S. Thanks to L.W.A. Member Sam for the tip!
Hey! Did you know we have a Letter Writers Alliance book club? We totally do. (We're also running a contest for our next guest! It could be you!) There's a Good Reads page where you can suggest books and comment on current or past books in discussions. You can watch us and special guests talk about the books we've read over on our YouTube channel. Sometimes we struggle a bit with deciding what book to do next. Fortunately for us, Jesse Doogan over at Book Riot published a list of 100 "Must-Read" epistolary novels. We'll be busy reading and writing letters for quite some time, it seems.
Vices included vintage cameras, red wine, dusty mystery books, vintage detective radio shows, silent movies and cupcakes.
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