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Open letters have become ransom notes

23 July 2020

3:18 PM

23 July 2020

3:18 PM

The ‘open letter’ is enjoying quite the formal renaissance. Curiously, recent examples of this newly popular epistolary genre exhibit striking similarities to the ransom note.

During June’s riots following George Floyd’s murder, a beloved independent bookstore in Denver called The Tattered Cover posted online that the store would be politically impartial, the better to remain a neutral space for customers.

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