Like video killed the radio star, it’s easy to feel that texts and emails have spelled the end of letter writing. Sure, the simple act of putting pen to paper is a rarer occurrence today than it was - ...

Don’t include any 3D art. There is an opportunity for letter “adopters” for anyone who wishes to help grant the wishes of a ...

The art of letter writing is not dead. Rachel Syme, a New Yorker staff writer, learned that during the early days of the pandemic. Longing for human connection, she asked her followers on social media ...

From time immemorial, handwritten correspondence has ranked among the most intimate and vibrant modes of human communication. To the letter writer, an unfilled folio is an empty receptacle, a vessel ...

I loved reading Laura Washington’s column on the art of the letter (“The digital age is destroying the art of the letter,” Jan. 30). One of the most meaningful relationships I have had in my life has ...

This week, as we near the end of 2025, the writers and editors of KQED Arts & Culture are reflecting on One Beautiful Thing ...

Debra Dolan has been mailing postcards to herself for more than 40 years. Postcards, she says, provide a snapshot not only of the time and place but also who she was in that moment — like a time ...

For hundreds of years, or at least since pens and paper became commonplace, people who wanted to get in touch with other people separated by distance had only one way to do it: they wrote letters, the ...

"What is healing, but a shift in perspective?” — Mark Doty, Heaven’s Coast Transactional writing — or letter writing — gets you beyond what you thought you could not get over. With all the other ways ...

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