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    Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship

    By Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo

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  • Coauthor Sarah Ruhl is Pulitzer Prize finalist and Tony Award nominated playwright whose book 100 Essays I Don’t Have Time To Write was a New York Times Notable Book in 2014
  • Coauthor Max Ritvo’s Four Reincarnations was named a Best Book of 2016 by Lit Hub, Shelf Awareness, the Irish Times, and Adroit Journal; it was reviewed by the New York Times Book Review, O, The Oprah Magazine, Publishers Weekly (starred), Booklist (starred), hailed as “one of the most original and ambitious first books“ by Louise Glück, and blurbed by Jean Valentine and the musician Tom Waits
  • We expect strong blurbs, reviews, and ordering from the poetry community as a result of the author’s massive network of supporters
  • Book’s focus on illness, spirituality, education, and friendship provides opportunities for wider coverage, crossover into larger markets
    • LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMilkweed Editions
    Release dateSep 18, 2018
    ISBN9781571319760
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    Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
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    Sarah Ruhl

    Sarah Ruhl's plays include In the Next Room, or the vibrator play (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee); The Clean House (Pulitzer Prize finalist, Susan Smith Blackburn Prize); Passion Play, a cycle (PEN American Award); Dead Man's Cell Phone (Helen Hayes Award); and Stage Kiss and Dear Elizabeth. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Helen Merrill Emerging Playwrights Award, the Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN Center Award for a midcareer playwright, the Feminist Press's Forty Under Forty Award, and the 2010 Lilly Award. She is currently on the faculty at Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her family.

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      I picked up an ARC of this short book at BEA drawn to the simple serenity of the cover. This is a collection of letters between playwright and Yale professor Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo, a Yale student in remission from a childhood cancer. When they first meet, Max is a student in Sarah's playwriting class, filled with exuberance and incredible wit and talent. But just a few months later, Max's cancer returns and his studies are interspersed with chemo and experimental immunotherapy treatments. My husband is also in remission from cancer and it's a tough balancing act trying to live big and get the most out of life, with a constant shadow of CT scans and that huge unknown of what will happen next. The letters between Max and Sarah capture that life from a little of Max's view, but mostly from Sarah, a friend who is watching a friend lose his battle to cancer. But the beauty behind this book isn't the sadness or expression of loss, but the beautiful friendship that develops between Sarah and Max. Poignant and beautiful.