Seeing an envelope addressed in a familiar hand can still make our hearts beat faster. That’s worth a first-class stamp. That ...

About ten years after her father passed away, local artist Shirley Cadmus and her two sisters found a box containing over 300 ...

Syme’s Letter Writer functions as both a paean to snail mail and a peppy guide to putting that lost art into practice once ...

Dominic Amerena’s debut novel explores the selfish side of literary life: the desire to have a real story, no matter who it ...

Lostintheletters, a creative writing and literacy empowerment nonprofit based in Atlanta, has announced the opening of a ...

Nicole Krauss is a novelist and a 2025 Guggenheim fellow. This op-ed is adapted from a speech the author gave on May 13 while receiving an honorary doctorate at Ben-Gurion University.

Here is a book that helps young readers understand ties between friends in deeper and more meaningful ways, like writing letters Letters come with the promise of intimacy and privacy. They allow ...

PBS, NPR and The London Review of Books all agree ... “She has a great wit.” And Dickinson’s letters have, in fact, inspired people to write to Miller, although electronically in this case. “Just as ...

It was super fun. I had no designs on writing a book about letter writing, but Random House wanted me to do it. I was happy to oblige, and I made it weirder than they were expecting, which is ...

I first began receiving letters from readers about my writing in earnest in the 1990s ... see anywhere else in the universe of blogging books on Instagram or Substack and of course, Good Reads.

What to write In their book Putting Hope to Work, they identify the elements of hope as possibility, agency, worth, openness, and connection. In considering how they might shape your “letter ...