Letters

LOOK: Why Reagan Denied Seventh Grader's Request For 'Disaster Relief'

Posted 05.18.2012

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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...

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How to Thank A Preschool Teacher

Rhiana Maidenberg | Posted 05.08.2012

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Rhiana Maidenberg

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.

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Letters From Laurence Sterne to His "Dear Kitty"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 05.23.2012

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Carolyn Vega

2012-03-23-pullquote.jpgIf you're going to write a love letter, you should probably get the name on the address panel correct.

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Advice for a Young Man Today

Patrick D. Shaffer | Posted 04.22.2012

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Patrick D. Shaffer

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.

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Write A Letter Or Send An E-mail?

Rev. Malcolm Boyd | Posted 03.26.2012

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Rev. Malcolm Boyd

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.

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How Obama Can Guarantee a Second Term

David Morris | Posted 03.24.2012

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David Morris

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."

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PHOTOS: Gallery Asks: Are Corporations People?

The Huffington Post | Kathleen Massara | Posted 01.06.2012

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In 2005, the Moscow-born, New York-based artist Yevgeniy Fiks mailed copies of "Imperialism the Highest Stage of Capitalism" by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ...

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Who Says Mike Rowe Doesn't Get As Dirty As He Used To?

Posted 03.05.2012

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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...

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#DearYoungerMe

Posted 12.22.2011

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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...

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"Punchification" Keeps Richard Doyle From His "Christmas Things"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 02.21.2012

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Carolyn Vega

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Why Writing to Strangers Isn't So Strange

Mariya Yefremova | Posted 12.31.2011

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Mariya Yefremova

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."

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Take Me to the Post Office

Juanita MORE! | Posted 12.24.2011

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Juanita MORE!

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!

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C.G. Jung and His Jewish Colleague, James Kirsch: An Extraordinary Exchange

Thomas Singer, M.D. | Posted 12.18.2011

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Thomas Singer, M.D.

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.

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Read A Long Lost Letter From Mitch Hedberg

Posted 11.29.2011

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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...

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Libraries: Information and Knowledge Spaces II

Carla Leitao | Posted 11.27.2011

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Carla Leitao

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.

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FLASHBACK: Marge Simpson's 1990 Letter To Barbara Bush

Posted 11.20.2011

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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...

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Coleridge Varies His "Inscription on a Time-piece"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 11.20.2011

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Carolyn Vega

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.

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What Joan Rivers and Marcel Proust Doodled on Their Mail

Elana Estrin | Posted 11.01.2011

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Elana Estrin

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?

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Texting Is So 19th Century

Pamela Newton | Posted 09.27.2011

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Pamela Newton

It has recently occurred to me that email and text messaging are actually a quaint throwback to the good old days of interpersonal communication.

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Charlotte Brontë's Teenage "Catalogue of Books"

Carolyn Vega | Posted 07.31.2011

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Carolyn Vega

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.

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PICTURE: How To Handle A Deer Crossing Problem

Posted 07.31.2011

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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...

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Query Fail: How NOT To Write a Query Letter

Writer's Relief Blog | Posted 07.31.2011

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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....

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WATCH: Eugene Mirman's Open Letter To Time Warner Cable

Posted 07.26.2011

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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...

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A Rejection Is a Rejection

Daniel Menaker | Posted 07.17.2011

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Daniel Menaker

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.

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Joy Resmovits

Does America's Education Secretary Respect Teachers?

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.03.2011

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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...

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