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UNFINISHED BUSINESS: Writing the 5 Essential Letters of Your Life by Frish Brandt is a “How To-Why To-When To” guide to writing letters of love, sadness, meaning, and purpose. The book is an invitation to make personal connections that may have been misplaced, joyfully rediscovered, or perhaps sorrowfully lost or abandoned. It also arrives at a moment that feels like a “correspondence renaissance” in literature, popular culture and media that fills a gap in the available literature of letter writing and our most significant relationships.
Unfinished Business is a pragmatic, empathetic, urgent call to stop avoiding the hardest conversations and start enjoying the world beyond hurt and regret. A true service to readers.
Kelly Corrigan, New York Times bestselling author of Tell Me More and The Middle Place
Frish Brandt has tapped into a secret vein of gold lurking in every human heart. Even the best-designed and well-lived life has some unfinished business. Kindly, compassionately, and with unexpected ease, Brandt reveals how to find and finish your essential letter. Completing your letter is life-changing—and it awaits you in these pages. Don’t miss it.
Dave Evans, New York Times bestselling author of Designing Your Life, Cofounder of Stanford Life Design Lab
This is an antidote to despair and a practice of peace, a book of intimacy and radical reflection. Frish Brandt is a magical presence in the world.
Terry Tempest Williams, author of The Glorians and When Women Were Birds
Unfinished Business offers a way to come safely closer to the unfathomable, bringing light to emptiness and love to fear. Brandt’s work is an extraordinary tool to help heal, connect, and transform your relationships. Her work is altogether a gorgeous phenomenon, and I’ve seen it work wonders time and again.
Dr. B.J Miller, Director of the Center for Living and Dying, co-author of A Beginners Guide to the End
Frish Brandt evokes relief, wonder, and immense gratitude in all who encounter her letter writing practice. Unfinished Business is a book for every one of us.
Nancy Horan, New York Times bestselling author of Loving Frank and The House of Lincoln
This book is an entryway into healing. By helping us find the words to articulate the enormity of the heart, this important writer and thinker has produced a primer that’s essential to our desire to communicate and love.
Hilton Als, Prize-winning staff writer and theater critic for The New Yorker
Upcoming events
October 29 at 5:30 pm at Book Passage, San Francisco Ferry Building
Frish Brandt in conversation with Tony Bravo, SF Chronicle Cultural Columnist. RSVP here.
November 3 at 7:00 pm at Books Inc., Palo Alto
Frish Brandt in conversation with anthropologist and author Roberta Katz. RSVP here.
November 12 at TBD at END WELL CONFERENCE, Skirball Center, Los Angeles
Frish Brandt with closing comments. Tickets available here.
November 15 at 9:30am at The Forum at Grace Cathedral, Gersham Hall, San Francisco
In conversation with Dean Malcolm Clemons Young. RSVP here.
November 17 at The Image Centre Toronto, Canada
In honor of the exhibition Richard Avedon: Immortal, Frish Brandt in conversation with Dr. Samir Sinha. More details to come.
December 5, 2026 in the mid afternoon at Tumbleweed Found, Santa Cruz
Details to come.
December 7 at 6:30pm at Christopher's Books, San Francisco
Letter writing workshop, in honor of National Letter Writing Day. RSVP by contacting Christopher's Books.
December 9th at 6:30pm at the San Francisco Public Library
An evening event and letter writing activity. Details to come.
December 10th at 6:00pm at Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco
Join for book signing, reading, conversation and sips.
January 13, 2027 at 6:00pm at Town Hall Seattle, Washington
Known Wishes: Legacy, Meaning and Memories.
January 23, 2027 at 10:00am for an online event
Writing Medicine with Laurel Braitman. Details through Writing Medicine.
More events coming up in 2027
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Chicago — January 28-29 Nurses Conference
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Seattle — April 7 Town Hall / Northwest Center for Creative Aging
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New York City — TBD
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Santa Fe — TBD
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Virginia — TBD
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And more