Books in this series, conceived and carried out by Claire Debrew, are published with the stamp “Cancelled”; this is how the mail marks what has been accepted for delivery.

When everything has already been said and you can, as they say, turn the last page, there is only one thing left to do - write a letter to someone else. The latter, however, is associated with a certain risk, just as any transition to action. It is known that Kafka chose to put his Letter to his Father in the back drawer of his desk. Writing that one letter, his last letter, is akin to deciding to put an end to everything. The Extinguished series makes one single demand to the authors: “Write as if you were writing for the last time.”