Solnit’s nostalgia
Rebecca Solnit writes, Those mail and newspaper deliveries punctuated the day like church bells. You read the paper...
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belletristesse
Thomas Mallon has collected a book of letters, and laments the loss of letter-writing culture. Louis Bayard thinks...
“Please do not write to me again.”
while we’re on the subject of the difficulties of the writing life, here’s another great Letters of Note entry,...
more about email
Continuing the email theme, here’s a familiar lament from Megan Marshall: email is so impersonal in comparison to...
the Republic of Letters
Here’s an excellent article by Robert Darnton, about which I will have more to say later. But for now here’s a...
the age of correspondence
Fred Wilson says that we have entered an “age of correspondence” because now we write so much more than we talk on...