Everything We Left Unsent
Theo Vance2026
Epistolary fiction
Collects other people’s letters. Returns them as novels.
Theo Vance buys other people’s correspondence at house clearances and estate sales, and has done since he was nineteen. Two novels have come out of the boxes so far.
He describes his method as arrangement rather than writing, which is modest to the point of being inaccurate — the arrangement is the writing, and he is very good at it.
Reader letters go to the house, unopened, and we pass them on. It is slower than a message form and it works better: Theo answers letters.