Since Virginia Evans‘ debut novel “The Correspondent” was published in April 2025, has become a phenomenon. The novel topped the New York Times’ best-seller list for hardcover fiction in February.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks to Evans about the book, which is a novel in letters about a retired attorney.
Book excerpt: ‘The Correspondent’
By Virginia Evans
Excerpted from “The Correspondent” by Virginia Evans. Copyright © 2026 by Virginia Evans. Published in the United States by Crown, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Penguin Random House LLC.
This segment aired on March 4, 2026.
