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Nov 10, 2018

"The worst approach to suffering is to try to make it go away, and the worst approach to happiness is to try to make it stay."

—Max Ritvo

Letters From Max: a Book of Friendship

"In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize; Max Ritvo was an exuberant, opinionated, and highly gifted poet in remission from pediatric cancer. Studded with poems and songs, their correspondence is a deeply moving portrait of a friendship, and a shimmering exploration of love, art, mortality, and joy." What follows is an excerpt from 'Letters from Max'.

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