My dear great-granddaughter, I wish my bequest to you could be the childhood I had, lazy afternoons playing baseball or hopscotch in the sunshine, long walks through fields filled with butterflies and birds. Instead, you live indoors, breathing air that …Read more
Rebecca Newberger Goldstein, Philosopher and Novelist, Winner MacArthur "Genius" Award and the National Humanities Medal Presented by President Obama
Dear Descendants, If you are reading this, then you must exist, and so my greatest fears haven’t been realized. We didn’t manage to eradicate our kind from the universe. In my darkest hours, routinely arriving at 4 in the morning, …Read more
T.C. Boyle, Author, Winner of PEN/Faulkner Award, Finalist for the National Book Award
Dear Rats of the Future: Congratulations on your bipedalism: it’s always nice to be able to stand tall when you need it, no? And great on losing that tail too (just as we lost ours). No need for that awkward …Read more
