'The Correspondent': Virginia Evans' best-selling debut is a novel in letters

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Published March 4, 2026 at 10:56 AM CST

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The cover of "The Correspondent" and author Virginia Evans. (Courtesy of Crown and Austin Joffe)

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.

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