You're listening to All the More Books, a weekly show about All the More Books.

Some are new, some are old, but I can promise you that all of them are books.

I am your host for the week, Tricia Brown, and this is

episode number 517.5, airing on June 20th, 2025. We are going epistolary this week. Couldn't tell you why.

Honestly, I was just in the mood. Though truthfully, I am always in the mood for an epistolary novel.

Stories told through letters are one of my very

favorite types of prose. In fact, the first book that I was ever hand sold in a bookstore as a

teenager, shout out Scott's bookstore, long since closed, unfortunately, but boy, it was a legend in its time.

I was a teenager. That book was an epistolary novel. It was called The Last Days of Summer by Steve Kluger, and I absolutely loved it. Liberty talked about that one on the show years ago, and I'm not going to go too far into it, but it's a funny, moving, bittersweet story of mostly letters. It's books, it's all epistolary, but it's mostly letters between a kid and a

professional baseball player during World War II. There's a lot more to it than that. So I would

encourage you to seek it out. But all you really need to know today is that it set me up for a

long time love of letters and books, which brings us many, many years later after that day in

Scott's bookstore to today's episode,

which we are going to return to after a quick break.

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