I have made clear my appreciation for author Ray Bradbury, his novels (such as Something Wicked This Way Comes), and his short stories. “Of straddlers between reality and fantasy,” I have written, “Ray Bradbury stands with the 20th century’s best.”

One area of his output with which I am less familiar is his correspondence. A new collection of Bradbury’s letters, Remembrance: Selected Correspondence of Ray Bradbury, edited by Bradbury scholar Jonathan R. Eller, is now out. Fellow Bradbury aficionado Karl Salzmann has a deeply personal review of the work, one that he stylizes as a letter to Bradbury himself. Read it at the Washington Free Beacon.