Dear Edna Sloane

Told in a modern epistolary form that includes emails, texts, and social media posts, Dear Edna Sloane is a delight. With the ambition and earnestness of an MFA graduate who's landed a dream-adjacent job as an editorial assistant in New York City, Seth Edwards has tasked himself with tracking down an all-but-forgotten author, Edna Sloane, in hopes that doing so might launch his own career. Sloane's literary star burned bright in the 1980s with the publication of her instant and enduring classic, An Infinity of Traces, but she mysteriously disappeared from the public eye at the height of its success. The personal and professional correspondences that emerge are often filled with creativity-fueled existential angst and literary snark, and they all work together to tell the story of an evolving industry and culture.