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In the years since it was first started, Shaun Usher's blog Letters of Note has brought fans more than 750 missives from famous figures past and prese...
In the years since it was first started, Shaun Usher's blog Letters of Note has brought fans more than 750 missives from famous figures past and prese...
Rhiana Maidenberg | Posted 05.08.2012
Thanks for allowing Maisy to proudly sing her "favorite" song, repeatedly (I expect "Set fire to the range" is a remark on my cooking ability) and for loving my children between 8:45 and 12:45.
Carolyn Vega | Posted 05.23.2012
Patrick D. Shaffer | Posted 04.22.2012
The world has expectations of you. Your mother has expectations of you. I have expectations of you but really, we don't matter -- it only matters what you expect from yourself.
Rev. Malcolm Boyd | Posted 03.26.2012
In addition to e-mails, sit down and write a few long, detailed, personal, honest letters expressing your ideas and feelings. Write them in longhand, if you still know how to do that.
David Morris | Posted 03.24.2012
Let me suggest a surefire way Barack Obama can win a second term: stand in the doorway of a post office scheduled for closing and declare, "Not on my watch."
The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.06.2012
In 2005, the Moscow-born, New York-based artist Yevgeniy Fiks mailed copies of "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...
Posted 03.05.2012
Mike Rowe sometimes receives letters from fans who don't think he gets as dirty as he used to on "Dirty Jobs" (Tue., 9 p.m. EST on Discovery). To imme...
Posted 12.22.2011
This time of year, everyone is focused on making resolutions. Most of them entail becoming a better version of yourself. But how many times do we look...
Carolyn Vega | Posted 02.21.2012
Mariya Yefremova | Posted 12.31.2011
Granted, the people I am exchanging letters with are "strangers", but as that heart-grabbing quote from "You've Got Mail" goes: "all this nothing has meant more to me than so many something's."
Juanita MORE! | Posted 12.24.2011
I admit it I'm an old-fashioned gal. I like to get a real card or letter from someone I care about in my real mailbox!
Thomas Singer, M.D. | Posted 12.18.2011
This book takes one on that journey in a most spirited and intelligent exchange between two fierce souls who dedicated their lives to exploring the innermost secrets of the interplay between the human, the divine, and the demonic.
Posted 11.29.2011
Late comedian Mitch Hedberg loved to hand-write his jokes the old-fashioned way, and after borrowing someone's Uni-Ball Gel Impact pen to fill out a s...
Carla Leitao | Posted 11.27.2011
Libraries are located at a unique intersection of spatial design. They are spaces that store, articulate and distribute formats (media), which are vessels of information.
Posted 11.20.2011
Back in 1990, when "The Simpsons" was in its second season, First Lady Barbara Bush called the show, "the dumbest thing [she] had ever seen," in an in...
Carolyn Vega | Posted 11.20.2011
In the late 1890s, an unknown dealer or collector assembled letters that were titled Sir Walter Scott: Letters of his Friends and Contemporaries. One of my favorite items in this is a poem in the hand of a very aged Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Elana Estrin | Posted 11.01.2011
Correspondence can speak volumes about the letter-writer. From idiosyncratic letterheads to sketches, stamps, cartoons and multiple-choice form letters, what do a letter's illustrations reveal?
Pamela Newton | Posted 09.27.2011
It has recently occurred to me that email and text messaging are actually a quaint throwback to the good old days of interpersonal communication.
Carolyn Vega | Posted 07.31.2011
Charlotte Brontë was barely a teenager when she began writing in earnest -- at her own count she had written over 20 complete works by the time she was 14.
Posted 07.31.2011
You know what, man? Ever since they put that Deer Crossing sign in, the neighborhood's been out of control. Deer all over the place. Crossing. Not cro...
Writer's Relief Blog | Posted 07.31.2011
Want to write a query letter that will really get the attention of literary agents? There are plenty of ways to do it, but not all of them are right....
Posted 07.26.2011
Ever been stood up by a service person after patiently sitting at home for the entire two-hour appointment time window? Comedian Eugene Mirman recentl...
Daniel Menaker | Posted 07.17.2011
If you're curious about what goes on inside the submission process of publishing, here are 8 edited examples of the rejection notes I got, through my agent, for 25,000 words of a memoir.
HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.03.2011
It may be Teacher Appreciation Week, but if online comments and blog posts indicate anything, some public school teachers don't feel the love from the...
Posted 05.18.2012