I love writing and receiving letters, so naturally I'm a sucker for a book written in letter form. Letters and epistolary books have a long literary tradition, but particularly in recent years, more ...

The invention of the letter, as a means of conveying news and other kinds of information, is often attributed to a Persian queen, Atossa, who reigned 2,500 years ago. But none of her correspondence ...

The book chronicles Emerson’s letter-writing adventures, which culminated in an influx of mail in response to her letter to Doug from other postal workers, and even a package from her idol, Taylor ...

In 1956, the editor William Maxwell was having some trouble with beetles in his roses. “[W]hen I come on the shreds of one that was exquisite in the morning and raddled by noon,” he wrote to one of ...