A penchant for journeys and a fascination with strangers

Letter to a Stranger

In 2013, Off Assignment began asking writers a simple question: “Who haunts you?” They responded in droves. They wrote letters.

In 2020, in response to the pandemic, we published a short-form, illustrated “Letter to a Stranger” project called “Postcard to a Stranger.”

And in 2022, we published an anthology based on our flagship column: Letter to a Stranger: Essays to the Ones Who Haunt Us (Algonquin Books).

 
 
 
 

“...And writing is, in the end, that oddest of anomalies: an intimate letter to a stranger.”

—Pico Iyer

Available now! The “Letter to a Stranger” anthology from Algonquin Books.