Virginia Evans’ debut novel, THE CORRESPONDENT, was the breakout novel of 2025, and is now clocking 25 consecutive weeks on The New York Times bestseller list. In honor of the one-year anniversary of its publication, we’re running this live interview from last year, in which Virginia talks about why she wrote a novel in letters, how she survived years of rejection, and what inspired her to create her retiree protagonist, the prickly but very funny Sybil van Antwerp.