The invention of the letter, as a means of conveying news and other kinds of information, is often attributed to a Persian ...

As you finish up your manuscript, the next step is often shopping it around to potential publishers. While this can be a ...

Syme’s Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence; By Rachel Syme; Clarkson Potter; 224 pp., $33.00 Even so, Syme has put together a volume that would be at home on a set designed by Wes Anderson ...

"Correspondence is a leap of faith, and that is part of what makes it wonderful," says Rachel Syme, author of Syme's Letter Writer: A Guide to Modern Correspondence. "You may never know if the person ...

Nobody talks about how Santa crosses the border — illegally. He has no visa. He drives his sleigh with no license, ...

Each Tuesday, we highlight an individual letter-to-the-editor writer. Each writer is asked the same five questions. The aim is to add to the understanding of where we’re all coming from and what we ...

I was interested in the Dec. 16 Sun Spots about Christmas cards, letters, and pen pals. Not too long ago, I exchanged Christmas cards with 450 friends and family members. We have lost many of them and ...

This letter is directed at the 10-year-old from Manheim Township who wrote the Nov. 7 LNP | LancasterOnline letter “Quarryville library deserves funding”: I read your letter about your support of the ...

A recent letter writer posited the idea of arming teachers and staff in schools to prevent or at least limit the impact of school shootings. This idea is not particularly original. However, since the ...

The mom of two shares how the discovery inspired her Dearist Jennifer Yang found a letter to a friend she never sent and started thinking about what letter-writing meant to her Inspired and wanting to ...

It was fittingly appropriate that Edward Rzepala’s letter appeared in the Opinion section of your online newspaper since his revisionist screed was 100% fact-free. Rzepala claims to be responding to ...

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 ...