“If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.” —Anne Lamott
The letter that arrived in the form of an e-mail was surprising. Maybe it shouldn’t have been. Its tone was semi-formal, as though the author might have prompted ChatGPT: compose a serious letter threatening legal action against a publisher and author if certain demands aren’t met prior to publication of a memoir about a father and his dysfunctional family relations.
