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Letter rip: Review of ‘Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence’ by Rachel Syme
Syme’s Letter Writer functions as both a paean to snail mail and a peppy guide to putting that lost art into practice once ...
From Washington’s burned letters to Trump’s missing transcripts, partial presidential records limit people’s full understanding of history
The White House has removed the official transcripts of Trump’s public remarks from its government website, NBC News reported in May 2025, replacing the written transcripts with select videos and ...
Why students and stars are turning to typewriters
When writing instructor Fred Durbin assigned his students to type letters to Tom Hanks on vintage typewriters, he hoped to ...
I Tried to Avoid Administrative Work. Writing a Novel Was a Poor Way to Do So.
Nothing more quickly catapulted me into real life than my project to escape it.