Summary

Letter 30 is addressed to Madelyne Tort-Verona, aka MTV to her college friends. She is the director at the Caxton Retreat Center. Jason addresses that Caxton is known for helping people with PTSD, but asks Madelyne to consider Darren Browles and compares Darren’s academic experience to PTSD. He explains that Darren was denied a residency at Benthem and Eleanor “slammed his project” (73). Darren did not show Jason the text of the rejection, but he suspects that Eleanor remains bitter about Jason’s book, Stain. He explains that he enhanced the narrative when he wrote that book and that Eleanor did not care much for him before they slept together. He concludes by apologizing for rehashing the past, but asks her to consider letting Darren stay at the retreat for a month or two. In the postscript, he asks if she has heard from...