Letters from Max A Book of Friendship Author:Sarah Ruhl, Max Ritvo In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet. He was also in remission from pediatric cancer. — Over the next four years?in which Ritvo?s illness returned and his health... more » declined, even as his productivity bloomed?the two exchanged letters that spark with urgency, humor, and the desire for connection. Reincarnation, books, the afterlife as an Amtrak quiet car, good soup: in Ruhl and Ritvo?s exchanges, all ideas are fair, nourishing game, shared and debated in a spirit of generosity and love. ?We?ll always know one another forever, however long ever is,? Ritvo writes. ?And that?s all I want?is to know you forever.?
Studded with poems and songs, Letters from Max is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.« less