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Cultural Favourites from the Archives – Letters That Changed The World

Intelligence Squared

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Deeper Fundis, I Love It, but It Was Too Long

There are no fictional letters in here, obviously. My criteria was letters that changed the world in some way that only I can define. Frida Kahlo is in there because she really defined for the first time the woman as artist. There's a letter from Balzac. Mozart. Nias Nini is in here. And her letters with Henry Miller. They're wonderful love letters. But she defined how women can write about love and sensuality in a way that no one had before.

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