Juliana Hatfield Pens Sad Essay on Kurt Cobain Letter and Financial Struggles

Juliana Hatfield has written a personal essay for the Talkhouse about a letter Kurt Cobain sent her after a backstage encounter in 1993. In the piece, she talks about her financial struggles and how, after keeping the letter in a shoebox for 23 years, she is considering selling it. “The letter,” Hatfield writes, “is a record of a moment in my life and career—and in the life and career of an American rock and roll phenom who didn’t live to play many more shows, or to write many more letters. But, more importantly, it is a record of Kurt Cobain’s thoughtfulness, sensitivity, generosity, humility, and humor, as well as his embarrassment and conflict about his popularity.”

She concludes by saying the letter is up-for-grabs for $20,000—”And even then, I still might decide, at the last minute, to keep it.” 

Read the full piece here on the Talkhouse.

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