A Wonderful 'Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury'

Hello Readers!

We're back after a couple weeks off. 

We spent it reading, of course. 

David had a birthday in late June, and he received a special gift that he's spent the last few weeks reading and relishing, so we decided to tell you all about it.

It's a book called "Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury". 

Well worth your time.

It contains personal letters and communications Ray sent and received across decades of his life, with many fascinating and admirable people on the other end, including Gore Vidal, Bertrand Russell, Anaïs Nin, Sir Arthur C. Clarke, and many more. 

This book felt very personal for David. He first encountered Bradbury's 'The Martian Chronicles' as a teenager. Maybe it was the parallel universe kind of story with juxtapositions of time and beings, or the poetic and profound way in which he describes characters, places, feelings, and fantasies, but the story deeply resonated with him. When he rereads Bradbury now, he's even more moved and impressed with the richness of imagery he creates. Ray is simultaneously simple and profound. Glib, and poetic. That is a trait we admire and often imitate. Getting a chance to study with Bradbury decades ago in Santa Barbara reinforced our desire to write in the same way, although we never expect to fully arrive there as he did. 

But it's something to aspire to!

These letters span from Bradbury's late teens to his nineties, displaying Bradbury's life as he perceived it, not as we did. It was assembled by editor and Bradbury scholar and biographer Jonathan R. Eller. It's a wonderful new way to get to know the master. 

British philosopher and mathematician Bertrand Russell was a fanboy

We highly recommend you check it out. It's available anywhere books are sold. And after you read it, we guarantee you're going to want to read his stories again too.

That's all for now. Try to stay cool in this blistering heat!

Until next time,

~2authors