epistolary culture
My Brilliant, Scolding Friend: Willa Cather and Zoë Akins’s Epistolary Feedback
An early letter from Willa Cather to Zoë Akins in 1914 consists almost entirely of blunt feedback to the aspiring writer. Some representative lines, "This story, my dear Zoe is written to be smart. . . . There’s either got to be real feeling in a story, or an intellectual interest of the highest order. . . .