© 2018, Text by Sarah Ruhl and Max Ritvo
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Ritvo, Max, 1990-2016, author. | Ritvo, Max, 1990-2016, Correspondence. Selections. | Ruhl, Sarah, 1974- Correspondence. Selections.
Title: Letters from Max : a book of friendship / Mark Rivko and Sarah Ruhl.
Description: Minneapolis, Minnesota : Milkweed Editions, 2018.
Identifiers: LCCN 2018007328 (print) | LCCN 2018016012 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571319760 (ebook) | ISBN 9781571313690 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Ritvo, Max, 1990-2016,--Correspondence. | Ruhl, Sarah, 1974---Correspondence. | Poets, American--20th century--Correspondence. | Cancer--Patients--Correspondence. | Women dramatists, American--20th century--Correspondence. | Drama teachers--Correspondence.
Classification: LCC PS3618.I8 (ebook) | LCC PS3618.I8 Z48 2018 (print) | DDC 811/.6--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018007328
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CONTENTS
2 Scan
10 February 17
11 February 17
12 February 20
13 February 20
14 February 26
15 March 15
16 Listening, Speaking, and Breathing
17 March 15
18 March 27
19 March 27
20 May 3
21 May 3
22 July 21
23 July 22
24 July 30
25 Refuge
26 July 30
27 July 26
28 July 29
29 August