{"product_id":"letters-from-max-a-poet-a-teacher-a-friendship-paperback","title":"Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eSarah Ruhl\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eMax Ritvo\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eA \u003cem\u003eKIRKUS\u003c\/em\u003e BEST BOOK OF 2018\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next four years--in which Ritvo's illness returned and his health 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.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStudded with poems and songs, \u003cem\u003eLetters from Max\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and the afterlife.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSarah Ruhl\u003c\/b\u003e is a playwright, two-time Pulitzer Prize finalist, Tony Award nominee, and author of the book \u003ci\u003e100 Essays I Don't Have Time to Write\u003c\/i\u003e, which was a \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book of the Year. She has been the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship, the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, the Whiting Writers' Award, the PEN\/Laura Pels International Foundation for Theater Award for a midcareer playwright, and the Steinberg Award. She is currently on the faculty of the Yale School of Drama and lives in Brooklyn with her family. \u003cb\u003eMax Ritvo\u003c\/b\u003e (1990-2016) was the author, with Sarah Ruhl, of \u003ci\u003eLetters from Max\u003c\/i\u003e. He was also the author of two collections of poems, \u003ci\u003eFour Reincarnations\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Final Voicemails\u003c\/i\u003e, which were published by Milkweed Editions in 2016 and 2018. His chapbook, \u003ci\u003eAeons\u003c\/i\u003e, was chosen by Jean Valentine to receive the Poetry Society of America Chapbook Fellowship in 2014. Ritvo's poetry has also appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003ePoetry\u003c\/i\u003e, among many other publications.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 336\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.4 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 10, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51771448262944,"sku":"9781571313751","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/7b2a9722b8eb284cc1dc812372c66b7e.webp?v=1780386762","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/letters-from-max-a-poet-a-teacher-a-friendship-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}