Writerland is a newsletter from The Delacorte Review whose mission is to help writers tell the stories they need to tell. When it first appeared forty years ago, what most struck me about Roger Angell’s classic New Yorker profile of the great St. Louis Cardinals’ pitcher, Bob Gibson, was not its considerable length, nor the enviable ease with which Angell told the story. Those qualities were striking. But what stood out was a single word, the headline:
Many thanks
Distilled, delightful writing to read