A New View: Join Me at Ten Stories Up

If you’ve been following this blog, you know that for sixteen years I’ve been transcribing my grandparents’ WWII love letters here — one by one, with as much care as I could give them.

I’m not done with that work. In fact, I’m just getting started on the bigger project it’s become.

This blog isn’t going anywhere — it will stay here as an archive of the letters, exactly as it’s always been. But I’m starting a broader conversation around them — the letters, my relationship to them, and the memoir I’m writing inspired by them — in a new newsletter called Ten Stories Up. It’s on Substack and it means I can write more freely – without worrying I’m veering too far from the handwritten letters – about everything these letters have opened up: creativity, motherhood, New York, and what we inherit from the people who came before us.

If you’re subscribed to this blog, I’ll be bringing you along. You’ll receive my first Ten Stories Up post soon.

A deeper exploration of Alex and Sylvia’s letters are waiting and I hope you’ll stay, though I understand if you want to just stick with the blog, where I’ll continue to post letters.