Notes on Letters

Recommended reading: Andrew Solomon draws from Rilke's Letters to a Young Poet and gives some advice for young writers. Pair with our own look at "the best advice writers ever received."

Lydia Millet's most recent novel, Magnificence, is the third in a trilogy, and a reminder of what a significant body of work she's been building over the last decade.  The Point offers the best overview of that work you're likely to find anywhere. Millet's "equal parts" Ben Marcus and Jonathan Franzen, writes Tom Dibblee, "but really she's her own thing."