Letters Blog

  • A Reader Writes About Her Experience with Letters In The Mail

    Dear Rumpus, I went on a letter writing rampage yesterday and it’s all your fault. Thanks for that. One of them was to Lorelei Lee about how I want to be a sex performer but I’m a wife and mother…

  • On Sending, and Receiving, Letters

    Letter writing is one of those things said to fall under the rubric of “lost art.”  Like tango dancing or throwing a knuckleball, whatever semi-vanished pastime we’re getting sentimental about this week (a google search reveals reference to a “Lost…

  • Elliott Talks Letters in the Mail

    “Well, we’ve just started doing this. Only a couple of the letters are already written. I know Tao Lin is doing his by hand, and illustrating it. Then we’ll photocopy it and send. I think the authors are going to…

  • Paper First

    The first Letter In The Mail is going out tomorrow. Written by Rumpus founding editor Stephen Elliott. Next week’s letter is from Margaret Cho. Who doesn’t want a letter in the mail?

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