THE SADDLEBALCKWELL LETTERS

My friend saddleblasters has a website that I enjoy more than perhaps any other website online, and we’ve spent a few years now e-mailing back and forth about books, writing, learning languages, living in foreign countries, and many other interests we share. At a certain point, I thought it would be fun to create a version of these e-mails we could share with the wider world, in the form of a letter series.

So, that’s what this is. I call it the Saddlebalckwell Letters; he calls it the Balckwell Saddle Essay Exchange, but in the end it all comes down to the same thing: a back-and-forth about a topic alternately chosen by me or him, which inevitably runs into a thousand other topics along the way.

Series 1: Influence