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Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

Julie Schumacher on Thirty Years of Correspondence With Her Late Friend, Melissa Bank

"If I were writing to her now, which I suppose I am, I would tell her that I will remember her."

By Julie Schumacher | August 2, 2023

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

Jen Mediano on Letter-Writing, Losing Touch, and Second-Hand Mourning

“Letters are a hinge into the invisible world; a place to share and to hone.”

By Jen Mediano | July 1, 2022

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

What a Letter Captures—and Preserves—in the Age of Social Media

Nikki Erlick on the Lost, Intimate Art of Letter Writing

By Nikki Erlick | June 28, 2022

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

The Unique Pleasures of Letter-Writing in a Era of Impulsive Interaction

Good Correspondence">Jackie Polzin on the Focused, Private Connections of
Good Correspondence

By Jackie Polzin | April 2, 2021

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

Do Printed-Out Emails Count As Letters? (Yes)

in What Ever Form">Dheepa Maturi on the Value of Epistolary Correspondence,
in What Ever Form

By Dheepa R. Maturi | October 21, 2019

The Last Love Letters of Anti-Nazi German Resistance Fighters

The Last Love Letters of Anti-Nazi German Resistance Fighters

Freya and Helmuth von Moltke: Love in a Time of War

By Helmuth Caspar von Moltke, Dorothea von Moltke, and Johannes von Moltke | September 18, 2019

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Dear Rick Moody: How Do I Accept My Illness and My Inability to Write?

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The Magic and Risk of a Handwritten Letter

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Postcards to inspire a movement to save the arts

By Literary Hub | March 22, 2017

Salman Rushdie on Letter Writing, Fairy Tales, and Drinking with Gunter Grass

Salman Rushdie on Letter Writing, Fairy Tales, and Drinking with Gunter Grass

In Conversation with Paul Holdengraber

By Literary Hub | May 11, 2016

Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

Dear Lizzie: The Second Lover to the Second Communist

How the correspondence of Marx and Engels turned into a novel

By Gavin McCrea | October 15, 2015