letters
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Frequent Letters
Electric Literature has featured a cool infographic on the usage of letters in the English language. The results? Not all letters are used equally. Check it out here.
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Yuppies Read
Now’s your chance to get your very own piece of David Foster Wallace. Today in New York, Sotheby’s art auction house is offering a small collection of letters the post-post-/meta-modern literary great once sent to his old friend JT Jackson,…
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Darwin’s Penpal
The Public Domain Review flips through Darwin’s unusual photo collection and his correspondence with neurologist James Crichton-Browne. The correspondence between Darwin and Crichton-Browne led Darwin to write The Expression of Emotions of Man and Animals. Darwin found Crichton-Browne’s help so…
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Strangling Yourself While Trying To Sing
Over at Maud Newton’s website—a letter, to you, on old family letters. Dusty old leaves from the early 1900s, excavated from here or there. Grandpa’s love triangle. An apology from the sanitarium in which Aunt Louise died. There’s magic in…
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Eulogy for the Love Letter
Paper notes and postcards have all but joined rotary phones and singing telegrams in the history books of communication. Email and text messages might have the advantage of speed (and sometimes playful naughtiness), but neither can compensate for the tangible…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Jenna Clark Embrey
The next Letter in the Mail is from Jenna Clark Embrey! Earlier this year, we published Jenna’s amazing essay “Coats”. Jenna Clark Embrey is a writer living in Brooklyn. Boston-born, she received an MFA in Theater Dramaturgy from Harvard. Before…
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Mary Shelley’s Correspondence Discovered!
Nora Crook, in perhaps the most exciting click ever to happen on the internet, made the discovery of a lifetime when she came across previously unpublished correspondence from the late Frankenstein author Mary Shelley. The article at The Guardian describes…
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Old-Fashioned Correspondence
I started trawling through books, visiting local museums and exhibitions and navigating various online archives, looking for examples of interesting correspondence, and, within a few days, I’d found so many fascinating documents – letters, memos, telegrams – that I was…
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Next Letter For Kids: Michael Reisman
We’re sending our next Letter For Kids from Michael Reisman! Michael is the author of the Simon Bloom Series, which follows the story of the title character who finds a book that lets him control the laws of physics. Simon…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Ray Shea
We’re sending our next Letter in the Mail from Ray Shea on October 15! Ray Shea has contributed to two of our Readers Report Back: Running Away and Neighborhood. His piece “Neighborhood Watch” was a nominee for a Pushcart Prize and he has been…
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New Letter in the Mail
The next Letter in the Mail is from none other than Lauren Eggert-Crowe. Lauren is the author of two poetry chapbooks. Some of her other work has appeared in Salon, The Nervous Breakdown, and L.A. Review of Books. You may…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Jessica Anthony
The next Letter in the Mail is from none other than Jessica Anthony! Jessica’s debut novel, The Convalescent, received praise from The San Francisco Chronicle, Publisher’s Weekly, and among others. In 2009, McSweeney’s honored her with the Amanda Davis Highwire…