{"product_id":"love-loosha-the-letters-of-lucia-berlin-and-kenward-elmslie-9780826367310","title":"Love, Loosha: The Letters of Lucia Berlin and Kenward Elmslie","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt the time of her death in 2004, Lucia Berlin was known as a brilliant writer of short stories, beloved by other writers but never achieving wide readership or acclaim. That changed in 2015 with the publication of \u003cem\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/em\u003e, a collection of some of her best work. Almost overnight, Lucia Berlin became an international bestseller as readers everywhere fell in love with her smoky, gin-soaked voice--at once dark and yearning, funny and wry, naïve and wise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLove, Loosha \u003c\/em\u003eis\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003ethe extraordinary collection of letters between Lucia Berlin and her dear friend, the poet and Broadway lyricist Kenward Elmslie. Written between 1994 and 2004, their correspondence reveals the lives, work, and literary obsessions of two great American writers. Berlin and Elmslie discuss publishing and social trends, political correctness, and offending others and being offended. They gossip. They dish. They entertain--for not only are Elmslie and Berlin writing to each other, they are writing \u003cem\u003efor\u003c\/em\u003e each other.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eLivingston, Chip:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eChip Livingston\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of five books of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction and is a professor of creative writing at the Institute of American Indian Arts. He is a former fiction student and close friend of Lucia Berlin, and, upon Lucia's introduction and suggestion, he became Kenward Elmslie's personal assistant for ten years.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eBerlin, Lucia:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eLucia Berlin\u003c\/b\u003e was the author of several short-story collections. In 2015 \u003ci\u003eA Manual for Cleaning Women\u003c\/i\u003e was published posthumously and became both a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and an international bestseller.\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKenward, Elmslie:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cb\u003eKenward Elmslie\u003c\/b\u003e was a member of the New York School of poetry, having written fifteen books of poems, several plays, and a novel as well as opera librettos and books and lyrics for Broadway and off-Broadway musicals.","brand":"High Road Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51552872268050,"sku":"9780826367310","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1ed6c9c5-646e-4df3-9236-a9b38ed0c8ab.jpg?v=1754909815","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/love-loosha-the-letters-of-lucia-berlin-and-kenward-elmslie-9780826367310","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}