In her new book, Syme's Letter Writer, Rachel Syme of The New Yorker explains how to write a delightful letter to a loved one. Unlike texting and email, old-fashioned letters, hand-addressed and ...

“Syme’s Letter Writer” is her first book. It is neither a history of letter-writing nor a tribute to the form’s luminaries but an opinionated volume, its quirkiness accentuated by ...

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 ...

so they find that their relationship revolves around letter writing. For example, this was the case with writer and philosopher Khalil Gibran, who was best known for his book, The Prophet.

I write so many letters—four or five a day ... Writes Antonia Fraser, in her book Love Letters, “With all due respect to Marshall McLuhan, it is the transportability of the written or the ...