Tag: epistles

  • Helene Hanff’s 84, Charing Cross Road: A Love Letter

    Today is the 75th anniversary of my favourite letter in this volume, Helene Hanff’s flurry of correspondence with a London bookseller over a couple of decades. Probably better known for the film adaptation starring Anne Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins, it is a lovely little book. Practically perfect. Hanff was a screenplay reader and sometime writer,…