“Penning an advice column for the literary website The Rumpus, [Strayed] worked anonymously, using the pen name Sugar, replying to letters from readings suffering everything from loveless marriages to abusive, drug-addicted brothers to disfiguring illnesses. The result: intimate, in-depth essays that not only took the letter writer's life into account but also Strayed's. Collected in a book, they make for riveting, emotionally charged reading (translation: be prepared to bawl) that leaves you significantly wiser for the experience. . . . Moving. . . . compassionate.” BookMovingSufferingReadingNamesResultsAdviceBrotherDrugLettersAccountsPreparedDepthIllnessIntimatePensCompassionateSugarWiserBe PreparedEssaysTranslationsWebsiteColumnsAbusiveLovelessReplyingLoveless Marriage Author:Leigh Newman
“My parents got carried away with the letter P when they were naming the kids in our family. There's me, Paula, my sisters Peggy and Patty, and my brother Pjimmy, spelled with a silent P.” KidsNamesParentBrotherLettersSilentOur FamilyMy BrotherMy SisterCarried Away Author:Paula Poundstone
“My first two books, Letters to a Young Brother and Letters to a Young Sister, were... distributed pretty widely. Judges in juvenile justice facilities started citing the book as required reading.” FirstsTwoBookYoungReadingJusticeBrotherJudgingLettersFacilityJuvenileCitingYoung BrotherJuvenile Justice Author:Hill Harper
“Mama wrote a letter to my father saying' I want to work with you' and she ended the letter saying' in Italian I can only say ti amo( I love you)' and of course the press used that to say women are sexual predators, in 1949 they made a first film together,' Stromboli', and they fell in love and my mother became pregnant with my brother Roberto before she could obtain a divorce.” WantLoveFirstsMadeI CanTogetherFilmUsedMotherCoursesFatherLove YouBrotherLettersPressesDivorceMy BrotherItalianPregnantMamaPredator Author:Isabella Rossellini
“Culture is already there and the church will continue to be even more irrelevant when it quotes letters from two thousand years ago as their best defense. When you have in front of you flesh and blood people who are your brothers and sisters, aunts and uncles, co-workers and neighbors and they love each other and they just want to go through life with someone.” PeopleWantYearsTwoCultureChurchBloodFrontsBrotherThousandYears AgoLettersWorkersDefenseNeighborFleshThousand YearsUnclesIrrelevantBrothers And SistersAuntLove Each OtherYour BrotherFlesh And BloodCo WorkerAunts And UnclesChurch Bells Author:Rob Bell
“All men of genius, and all those who have gained rank in the republic of letters, are brothers, whatever may be the land of their nativity.” MenMayLandBrotherGeniusLettersRepublicNativity Book:Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut Source: Napoleon in his own words from the French of Jules Bertaut
“My brother's researched our early family history. He found a letter from a fella who said he used to be in love with my mum.” SaidUsedFoundBrotherLettersUsed To BeMy BrotherMumFamily HistoryFellas Author:Paul McCartney
“And in her [Eleanor Roosevelt] letters, she writes the most, you know, fanciful letters: when we are together, and when we are reunited, and you know, I will be your surrogate wife. Of course she doesn't use that word, but I will be the mother to my brothers, and I will be your primary love.” KnowsWritingUseTogetherMotherCoursesWifeBrotherLettersPrimariesMy BrotherEleanorSurrogatesReunited Author:Blanche Wiesen Cook
“As for Kim Jong-un, first of all, he tried to kill his half brother in 2012, and according to South Koreans, the half brother, Kim Jong-nam actually wrote a letter to Kim Jong-un pleading with him not to do that anymore.” FirstsHalfBrotherLettersSouthKoreanKimPleading Author:Christopher R. Hill