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The magazine recounts Fidel Castro's epistolary romance with a Havana socialite: Imprisoned after his failed 1953 coup, he sent her fervent letters that mixed political invective with sweet nothings ("there is a type of honey that never satiates").
He didn't know any of them when sentenced, but he cultivated epistolary friendships from his prison cell with reporters, anti-capital punishment activists, and experts he saw featured on the MacNeil-Lehrer NewsHour . ...
But to address the problem at hand: Your wife, for whatever reason, is committed to an epistolary marriage.
Ephron co-authored and directed the 1998 movie, You've Got Mail , a somewhat flatfooted update of the charming 1940 Ernst Lubitsch movie The Shop Around the Corner (which was also the source material for the even more charming 1963 Broadway musical She Loves Me ). You've Got Mail updated the earlier film's epistolary plot (two shopkeepers hate each other by day, each not knowing the other is the correspondent to whom he/she sends anonymous love letters by night) for the Internet age; in the new version, the two swapped messages via AOL.
Brownrigg's forte is her ability to emulate the "curiously banal, clever-clever, quasi-poetic style that seems to afflict so many inhabitants of cyberspace" (Geoff Nicholson, the New York Times Book Review ) in the many epistolary sections of the book, and she "wonderfully captures the ghostly dance of presence and absence that can characterize digital relationships" (Erik Davis, the Voice Literary Supplement ). (Click here to read the first chapter.)
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