This article first appeared in Stars and Stripes, May 9, 2014. It is republished unedited in its original form. In his spare Washington apartment, author and popular historian Andrew Carroll stood ...
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert to answer, send it to [email protected]. Who created ...
If you could write a letter to anyone, and ask them anything, who would you write to, and what would you ask? In this, the digital age, it’s become an increasingly rare thing to receive a letter in ...
Our inquiry into the subject of letter writing began innocently enough, when we were reflecting on the subject of “Christmas letters.” We were soon deep into the history of letter writing and all its ...
Series from publisher's Web site. NPM copy purchased with Adopt-a-Book funds. Contents Prologue : networks of nineteenth-century letter-writing / Elizabeth Hewitt -- Introduction : epistolary studies ...
The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...
the light of humans’ blazing cornerstone. I’m certainly not the first to write about the lost art of letter writing — an art that has been usurped by technology, texts and tweets. From TED Talks to ...
Tired of texting? Send your loved ones some snail mail instead. Rachel Syme, author of "Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence,"... The delightfully analog art of letter-writing The ...