In the first few weeks, I was struggling with how to work readers' comments into the Open Letters experience. What ended up making sense to me was to include them in my editor's letters. It felt pretty natural to me. Our letters, for all their intimacy, rarely feel self-indulgent. I think that has something to do with their imagined audience.
Music seems an embedded part of personal history for many correspondents.
In both the confessional tone and the way music plays a central role in conveying Rob's emotional state, Open Letters reminds me of Nick Hornby's High Fidelity . That's a nice idea. I hadn't thought of that. Maybe we need to put together a mixed-tape soundtrack. In music, however, it's the thing.