
What He's Poised to Do is also the title of his new story collection, which features a number of musings on love and correspondence. So his publishers at Harper are encouraging you to write a letter to a fictional character, and publishing many of them on a new blog, Letters with Character.
In the spirit of classical correspondence, we've just clipped a bunch of letters out of the new issue and mailed an anonymous threatening postcard to Dick and Nicole Diver.