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Portman’s Pen Pals

  • Guia Cortassa
  • July 26, 2016
Apparently, Jonathan Safran Foer wasn’t the only one exchanging emails with Natalie Portman. At The Millions, Jacob Lambert shares excerpts from the supposed epistolary relationship between the actress and no less…
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(K)ink: Writing While Deviant: Ames Hawkins

  • Ames Hawkins
  • May 3, 2016
Is it really that human capacity is limited? Or are we limited by what it is we believe we are able, and allow ourselves—are willing—to see?
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A Note about Love

  • Stephanie Bento
  • February 17, 2016
Elegance is a refinement of simplicity rather than a flourish of excess. Elegance prompts wit rather than comedy, sentiment rather than sentimentality. Such restraint is the lens through which all…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Delicacy and Strength of Lace

  • Jeremy Reed
  • April 2, 2015
In letter-writing, we are not really talking, but the words represent the deep-heldness of our communication.
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The Last Book I Loved: Dear Lil Wayne

  • Kaitlyn Tiffany
  • March 12, 2015
During the eight months he was sentenced to Rikers Island, a poet named Lauren Ireland wrote postcards to Lil Wayne. The rapper never responded, but the writer compiled them into a tiny purple book.
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Chekhov in His Own Words

  • Guia Cortassa
  • February 26, 2015
All that is nonsense though. Write what you like. If you haven’t facts make up with lyricism. In 1892, Anton Chekhov sent a letter to V. A. Tihonov including a…
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Austen Family Letters

  • P.E. Garcia
  • January 30, 2015
The LA Times reports that unpublished letters and poems from Jane Austen’s family have been acquired by the Huntington Library. While none of the letters are from Jane Austen herself,…
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Eschew Beastly Adjectives

  • Claire Burgess
  • January 30, 2015
A rediscovered 35-year-old letter from Roald Dahl dispenses advice to a young writer in his trademark irascible fashion. After scolding the letter writer for “asking to much of [him],” Dahl…
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Peeking at Leaks

  • Guia Cortassa
  • January 27, 2015
The joy of reading other people’s mail is a well-known, well-documented phenomenon. Inspired by the Sony data hack, Lydia Kiesling investigates the pleasure of looking at famous people’s personal correspondence over…
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Pen Pals with Eliot and Marx

  • Jake Slovis
  • January 13, 2015
For the Tin House blog, Heather Hartley spends the holiday season perusing letters between T.S. Eliot and Groucho Marx. Through their love of “good cigars” and a “weakness for making puns,” Eliot…
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A Losing Game

  • Bryan Washington
  • November 10, 2014
I imagined if I had been writing in the 1950s and 1960s, I, too, may have been writing for the pulps. I got the sense that [Jim] saw me as…
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(Not Really) Pleased To Meet You

  • Guia Cortassa
  • October 30, 2014
The narrative of the encounter between James Joyce and Marcel Proust gets another tile added to its mosaic. Over at the London Review of Books blog, Ben Jackson reports on the…
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