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Letter writing

The Long Goodbye

From sign-offs in the correspondence of the philosopher collected in Letters and Other Texts, which was published in July by Semiotext(e). Wishes, wishes, wishes Friendship and wishes Thinking of your…

Disappearing Ink

by Claire Messud,

From Kant’s Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write, a collection of essays, which will be published next month by W. W. Norton. We live in an era…

Why Dogs Go After Mail Carriers

by Garret Keizer,

Bless this mess

by Joyti De-Laurey,

Signed, Sealed, Deliverance

by Kent Coulson,

The following letter, written in summer 2002 by Wasatch County Jail inmate Kent Coulson, was intended for Coulson’s girlfriend but was accidentally sent to David Sam, his sentencing judge. Coulson…

Mail bonding

by Judi Barton, Nate Rosenblatt,

How to write an erotic love letter

by V.K. McCarty,

How to Correspond with a Boy

By an anonymous teenager, excerpted from the January 1963 issue of Seventeen magazine. Craftsmanship shown by female letter writers is infinitely superior to that of males, and for a good…

A fountain pen, an empty page, and thou

by Lynda Barry, Julie Garwood, Mark Leyner,Edited by Jack Hitt,

The relationship is in the mail (I)

by Harper’s Staff,

Military reform