We write to you from a distance unknown to you or us. Yet, our words reach you nonetheless.

The inherent urge to communicate defines the human experience; we have been inventing and developing intricate systems of communication for thousands of years in order to reach each other. The amount of systems we’ve come up with speaks volumes. Letters, phone calls, emails, coded messages, notes, flyers, texts - we want to be able to reach each other all the time, and it seems we’ve come to a point where we’ve arranged the possibility of endless correspondence across time and space.

All this does not mean it’s always easy to know what to say. This capsule is about secret confessions, code language, long distance postcards, late night texting, passing notes in class, writing emails, liking someone’s instagram story, spotify playlists, telepathy, and dream communication. It’s also about correspondence with oneself, like journaling or writing lists, or with unknown higher forces, such as the messages we receive through tarot cards, fortune cookies, or angel numbers.

Through March and April, we will be reading four core book picks, and invite you to read along:

Letters to Milena - Franz Kafka (1952)

I Love Dick - Chris Kraus (1997)

Lady Susan - Jane Austen (1871)

Dangerous Liaisons - Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)

This capsule also works as an open call for original writings and art (in whatever format you choose) - send them to us via DM or email to be published in our wrap-up newsletter or our website. Have any on-theme cultural recommendations - literature, art, film, music? Send these along as well, and we’ll include them in our ‘book club recommends’ section.

Yours truly,

Capsules Book Club