Permission

Consisting of anonymous e-mail messages sent by the author to an acclaimed visual artist over the course of a year, Permission is the record of an experiment: an attempt to forge a connection with a stranger through the writing of a book. Part meditation, part narrative, part essay, it is presented to its addressee as a gift that asks for no thanks or acknowledgement–but what can be given in words, and what received? Permission not only updates the epistolary novel by embracing the permissiveness we associate with digital communication, it opens a new literary frontier.